1 John 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

Common English Bible

⁹ If we receive human testimony, God’s testimony is greater, because this is what God testified: he has testified about his Son.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater: that he has testified about his Son.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son.

1 John 5:9 Cross References

Matthew 17:5

While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

John 10:38

But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

John 5:39

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

Acts 17:31

inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Hebrews 2:4

God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

Hebrews 6:18

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

1 John 5:10

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.

1 John 5:8

For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.