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1 John 5:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. "
1 John 5:12
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
11 The testimony is this: that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
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1 John 5:1
"Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him."
1 John 5:2
"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments."
1 John 5:3
"For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous."
1 John 5:4
"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith."
1 John 5:5
"Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
1 John 5:6
"This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth."
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