1 John 5:18-20

That You May Know

18 We know that n everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but o he who was born of God p protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

19 We know that we are from God, and q the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

20 And we know that the Son of God has come and r has given us understanding, so that we may know s him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and t eternal life.

  1. Cross References
    1 John 3:9
    No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
  2. Cross References
    John 1:18
    No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
  3. Cross References
    John 17:12
    While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 4:6
    And said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.
    Galatians 1:4
    Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
  5. Cross References
    Luke 24:45
    Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
  6. Cross References
    John 17:3
    And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
    Revelation 3:7
    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
  7. Cross References
    1 John 5:11 - 13
    And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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