MODERN LITERAL VERSION

5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born from God and everyone who loves* him who fathered us, also should love* him who has been born from him.
5:2 We know by this that we love* the children of God, whenever we love* God and whenever we are keeping his commandments.
5:3 For* this is the love* of God, that* we should keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome.
5:4 Because whatever has been born from God overcomes the world and this is the victory, your* faith, that has overcome the world.
5:5 Who is he who overcomes the world, except he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
5:6 This is he who came through water and blood– Jesus Christ; not only in the water, but in the water and in the blood. And it is the Spirit who is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth.
5:7 Because there are three who are testifying, {F}
5:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood and the three are in the one.
5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because the testimony of God is this, that he testified concerning his Son.
5:10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God, has made* him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.
5:11 And the testimony is this, that God gave to us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.
5:12 He who has the Son, has life; he who does not have the Son of God, does not have the life.

5:13 I have written these things to you* who believe in the name of the Son of God, that* you* may know that you* have everlasting life, and that* you* may believe in the name of the Son of God.
5:14 And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us;
5:15 and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.
5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning {F} sin not to death, he will ask and God will give him life for those who are not sinning to death. There is {F} sin to death. I do not say that* he should ask concerning that.
5:17 All unrighteousness is sin and there is sin not leading to death.

5:18 We know that everyone who has been born from God is not sinning, but he who was born from God guards himself and the evil one does not touch him.
5:19 We know that we are from God and the whole world lies in the evil one.
5:20 Now we know that the Son of God has come and has given us perception, that* we might know him who is true and we are in him who is true, that is in his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and everlasting life.
5:21 My little children, guard yourselves from idols. Amen.
{Footnotes: 1Jn 5.7b-8a is not in most of the Greek Manuscripts. It was put there from the Catholic Latin Bible. 1Jn 5:16a- Or: a sin not leading to death. 1Jn 5:16b- Or: a sin leading to death.}