1 John 5:16-21

16If you see another believer committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, you should pray that God would give that person life. This is true for those who commit sins that don’t lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I’m not telling you to pray about that.

17Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.

18We know that those who have been born from God don’t go on sinning. Rather, the Son of God protects them, and the evil one can’t harm them.

19We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

20We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.

21Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.