1 John 5:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ EVERYONE WHO believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him (His offspring).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Common English Bible

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God. Whoever loves someone who is a parent loves the child born to the parent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves God, who provides that birth, also loves him who has been born of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 5:1 Cross References

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Luke 7:5

for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us.”

John 1:3

All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being

John 15:23

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

John 6:69

We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

Acts 8:36

As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?”

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling.

1 John 2:29

If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them; they cannot sin because they have been born of God.

1 John 4:2

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 5:18

We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

1 John 5:5

Who is it who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?