New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 5:13-21

13 1These things I have written to you who 2believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have 3eternal life. 14This is 4the confidence which we have 5before Him, that, 6if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, 7we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

16If anyone sees his brother or sister 8committing a sin not leading to death, 9he shall ask and 10God will, for him, give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. 11There is sin leading to death; 12I am not saying that he should ask about that. 17 13All unrighteousness is sin, and 14there is sin not leading to death.

18 15We know that 16no one who has been born of God 17sins; but He who was born of God 18keeps him, and 19the evil one does not 20touch him. 19 21We know that 22we are of God, and that 23the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20And 24we know that 25the Son of God has come, and has 26given us understanding so that we may know 27Him who is true; and we 28are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. 29This is the true God and 30eternal life.

21 31Little children, guard yourselves from 32idols.

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Notes

1. 1 John 5:13 John 20:31 ↩
2. 1 John 5:13 1 John 3:23 ↩
3. 1 John 5:13 1 John 1:2; 2:25; 4:9; 5:11, 20 ↩
4. 1 John 5:14 1 John 2:28; 3:21f ↩
5. 1 John 5:14 Lit toward ↩
6. 1 John 5:14 Matt 7:7; John 14:13; 1 John 3:22 ↩
7. 1 John 5:15 1 John 5:18-20 ↩
8. 1 John 5:16 Lit sinning ↩
9. 1 John 5:16 James 5:15 ↩
10. 1 John 5:16 Or God will give him life, that is, to those who... ↩
11. 1 John 5:16 Num 15:30; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26 ↩
12. 1 John 5:16 Jer 7:16; 14:11 ↩
13. 1 John 5:17 1 John 3:4 ↩
14. 1 John 5:17 1 John 2:1f; 5:16 ↩
15. 1 John 5:18 1 John 5:15, 19, 20 ↩
16. 1 John 5:18 1 John 3:9 ↩
17. 1 John 5:18 Or sins continually ↩
18. 1 John 5:18 James 1:27; Jude 21 ↩
19. 1 John 5:18 1 John 2:13 ↩
20. 1 John 5:18 John 14:30 ↩
21. 1 John 5:19 1 John 5:15, 18, 20 ↩
22. 1 John 5:19 1 John 4:6 ↩
23. 1 John 5:19 John 12:31; 17:15; Gal 1:4 ↩
24. 1 John 5:20 1 John 5:15, 18, 19 ↩
25. 1 John 5:20 John 8:42; 1 John 5:5 ↩
26. 1 John 5:20 Luke 24:45 ↩
27. 1 John 5:20 John 17:3; Rev 3:7 ↩
28. 1 John 5:20 John 1:18; 14:9; 1 John 2:23; Rev 3:7 ↩
29. 1 John 5:20 1 John 1:2 ↩
30. 1 John 5:20 1 John 5:11 ↩
31. 1 John 5:21 1 John 2:1 ↩
32. 1 John 5:21 1 Cor 10:7, 14; 1 Thess 1:9 ↩

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