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There are three witnesses: [a] the Spirit, the water, and the blood. These three witnesses agree.

We accept human testimony. God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony that he has given about his Son.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:7 Four very late manuscripts add verses 7b–8a: “in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. These three witnesses agree. And there are three witnesses on earth:”

For there are three(A) that testify: the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. We accept human testimony,(B) but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God,(C) which he has given about his Son.

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  1. 1 John 5:8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the fourteenth century)