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.

1 John 5:1 Cross References

1 John 2:29

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

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.

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 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 5:4

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

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 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.

John 3:3

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

Matthew 16:16

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

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.

John 15:23

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

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 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

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.

John 6:69

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

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?

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?”

John 1:3

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

1 John 5:5

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

Luke 7:5

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