The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son.

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God---in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.

The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to people.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him.

Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.

Let us give glory to God! He is able to make you stand firm in your faith, according to the Good News I preach about Jesus Christ and according to the revelation of the secret truth which was hidden for long ages in the past.

Now, however, that truth has been brought out into the open through the writings of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God it is made known to all nations, so that all may believe and obey.

No one can deny how great is the secret of our religion: He appeared in human form, was shown to be right by the Spirit, and was seen by angels. He was preached among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, and was taken up to heaven.

but now it has been revealed to us through the coming of our Savior, Christ Jesus. He has ended the power of death and through the gospel has revealed immortal life.

which is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time,

And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.

This, then, was the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from death.

(SEE 1:21)

God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact.

You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death---and we are witnesses to this.

We are witnesses to these things---we and the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to those who obey him."

not to everyone, but only to the witnesses that God had already chosen, that is, to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from death.

I, who am an elder myself, appeal to the church elders among you. I am a witness of Christ's sufferings, and I will share in the glory that will be revealed. I appeal to you

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God---in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

"The LORD created me first of all, the first of his works, long ago.

I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.

before God made the earth and its fields or even the first handful of soil.

when he placed the clouds in the sky, when he opened the springs of the ocean

I was beside him like an architect, I was his daily source of joy, always happy in his presence---

In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

From the very beginning the Word was with God.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven."

but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me."

I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."

I did come from the Father, and I came into the world; and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,