1 John 5:4-6

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Because The One Born of God Is Victorious Over The World By Faith In Jesus

⁴Because everything having been born from God is being-victorious-over the world. And this is the victory having been-victorious-over the world: our faith!

Who Indeed Is Victorious If Not The One Believing Jesus Is The Son of God!

⁵And who is the one being-victorious-over the world if not the one believing^[a] that Jesus is the Son of God!

Because Jesus Christ Has The Three-Fold Witness of God

⁶This One is the One having come by water and blood^[b]: Jesus Christ (not in^[c] the water only, but^[d] in the water and in the blood). And the Spirit is the One testifying, because^[e] the Spirit is the truth.

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Footnotes

1 John 5:5 Or, having-faith, to show the relationship to ‘faith’ in v 4.
1 John 5:6 These two historical witnesses may refer to Christ’s baptism (where the Father testified) and death (where the resurrection gave the Father’s testimony); or, His birth (He came in real flesh) and His death (He died a real death); or, the blood and water that came from His side (Jn 19:34, giving testimony to His real humanity and death).
1 John 5:6 Or, in-connection-with, by, with.
1 John 5:6 John denies some false teaching of his day, the details of which are not certain. We know some denied that God died. They taught that the Spirit of God came on the human Jesus at His baptism and left in Gethsemane. Jesus was not God come in the flesh (4:2), and His death had no significance. Perhaps John is refuting some such teaching here.
1 John 5:6 The Spirit is presently adding His testimony to the two historical witnesses because it is His nature to testify to the truth.

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