| For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. | For everyone born of God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith. |
| Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. | Who indeed conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? |
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| And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. | And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
| Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. | Whoever possesses the Son possesses life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not possess life. |
| I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. | I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. |
| This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. | And thus we can have confidence in him that if we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he hears us. |
| And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. | And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask him, we may be sure that all we ask of him will be ours. |
| We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. | We also know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding so that we can know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, since we are in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. |
| Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. | Dear children, keep away from idols. |
