1 john 5 (NMV)
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.
2 This is how we know that we love God's children: when we love God and keep His commands.
3 For this is what loving God means: to keep His commands. And His commands are not burdensome,
4 because everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith.
5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. Not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three who testify:
8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three are in agreement.
9 If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater, because it is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
10 The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within themselves. The one who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony that God has given about His Son.
11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 This is the confidence we have before Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
15 And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked of Him.
16 If anyone sees a fellow believer committing a sin not leading to death, they should ask, and God will give life to that person, to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray about that.
17 All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning. But the One who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.
19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world is under the influence of the evil one.
20 And we know 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, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves away from idols.