## Overcoming the World 

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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the One who gives _new_ birth loves also the one who has been born of Him. 

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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do His commandments. 

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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 

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For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world--our faith. 

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Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 

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This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 

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For there are three that bear witness: 

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the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 

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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness about His Son. 

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The one who believes in the Son of God has this witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has borne witness about His Son. 

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And the witness is this, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 

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He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have that life. 

## That You May Know 

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These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 

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And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 

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And if we know that He hears us _in_ whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 

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If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not _leading_ to death, he shall ask and _God_ will for him give life to those who commit sin not _leading_ to death. There is a sin _leading_ to death; I do not say that he should make request for this. 

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All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not _leading_ to death. 

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We know that no one who has been born of God sins; but He who was begotten of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. 

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We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in _the power of_ the evil one. 

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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. This is the true God and eternal life. 

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Little children, guard yourselves from idols.