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1 John 5

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. CCC · Fathers

2 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments.

3 For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the victory which overcometh the world: Our faith.

5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth. CCC

7 And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one. CCC

8 And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and the water and the blood. And these three are one. CCC

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.

10 He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.

11 And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.

12 He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not life.

13 These things I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. CCC

15 And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

17 All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not. CCC

19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness. CCC

20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 1CCC 2780 CCC 2790
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    • CCC 2780 “We can invoke God as "Father" because he is revealed to us by his Son become man and because his Spirit makes…”
    • CCC 2790 “Grammatically, "our" qualifies a reality common to more than one person. There is only one God, and he is recognized as Father…”

    • “… but is of antichrist." These words agree with what was said in the Gospel, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." Wherefore he again exclaims in his Epistle, "Every one that believeth that Jesus is the Christ, has been born of God;”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  2. Verse 6CCC 1225
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    • CCC 1225 “In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was…”
  3. Verse 7CCC 1225
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    • CCC 1225 “In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was…”
  4. Verse 8CCC 694 CCC 1225
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    • CCC 694 “Water. the symbolism of water signifies the Holy Spirit's action in Baptism, since after the invocation of the Holy Spirit it becomes…”
    • CCC 1225 “In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was…”
  5. Verse 14CCC 2778 CCC 2827
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    • CCC 2778 “This power of the Spirit who introduces us to the Lord's Prayer is expressed in the liturgies of East and of West…”
    • CCC 2827 “If any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him." Such is the power of the…”
  6. Verse 18CCC 2852
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    • CCC 2852 “A murderer from the beginning, . . . a liar and the father of lies," Satan is "the deceiver of the whole…”
  7. Verse 19CCC 2852
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    • CCC 2852 “A murderer from the beginning, . . . a liar and the father of lies," Satan is "the deceiver of the whole…”
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