Saturday 6 January 2018

5Who is he who overcomes the world,but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

6This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ;not with the water only, but with the water and the blood.It is the Spirit who testifies,because the Spirit is the truth.· · · verse 7 is not read8the Spirit, the water, and the blood;and the three agree as one.9If we receive the witness of men,the witness of God is greater;for this is God’s testimonywhich he has testified concerning his Son.10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself.He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar,because he has not believed in the testimonythat God has given concerning his Son.11The testimony is this:that God gave to us eternal life,and this life is in his Son.12He who has the Son has the life.He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

13These things I have written to youwho believe in the name of the Son of God,that you may know that you have eternal life,and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

12Praise the Lord, Jerusalem!Praise your God, Zion!13For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.He has blessed your children within you.

14He makes peace in your borders.He fills you with the finest of the wheat.15He sends out his commandment to the earth.His word runs very swiftly.

19He shows his word to Jacob,his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.20He has not done this for just any nation.They don’t know his ordinances.Praise the Lord!

7He preached, saying,“After me comes he who is mightier than I,the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.8I baptized you in water,but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

9In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee,and was baptized by John in the Jordan.10Immediately coming up from the water,he saw the heavens partingand the Spirit descending on him like a dove.11A voice came out of the sky,“You are my beloved Son,in whom I am well pleased.”