Jesus

Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life.

Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.

Here is how we know that we remain united with him and he with us: he has given to us from his own Spirit.

Moreover, we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as Deliverer of the world.

If someone acknowledges that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains united with him, and he with God.

Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.

We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

Yes, this is the command we have from him: whoever loves God must love his brother too.

Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.

For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,

Who does overcome the world if not the person who believes that Yeshua is the Son of God?

He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah — not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

There are three witnesses —

If we accept human witness, God’s witness is stronger, because it is the witness which God has given about his Son.

Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son.

And this is the witness: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Those who have the Son have the life; those who do not have the Son of God do not have the life.

I have written you these things so that you may know that you have eternal life — you who keep trusting in the person and power of the Son of God.

This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us.

And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — then we know that we have what we have asked from him.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask; and God will give him life for those whose sinning does not lead to death. There is sin that does lead to death; I am not saying he should pray about that.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment, so that we may know who is genuine; moreover, we are united with the One who is genuine, united with his Son Yeshua the Messiah. He is the genuine God and eternal life.

Grace, mercy and shalom will be with us from God the Father and from Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah’s coming as a human being. Such a person is a deceiver and an anti-Messiah.