Letters to the Churches

There are three witnesses —

the Spirit, the water and the blood — and these three are in agreement.

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.

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.

We know that we are from God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One.

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.

Children, guard yourselves against false gods!

From: The Elder To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth — and not only I but also all who have come to know the truth —

because of the Truth which remains united with us and will be with us forever:

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.

I was very happy when I found some of your children living in truth, just as the Father commanded us.

And now, dear lady, I am requesting that we love one another — not as if this were a new command I am writing you, for it is the one which we have had from the beginning.

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.

Watch yourselves, so that you won’t lose what you have worked for, but will receive your full reward.

Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.

If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;