1st John Chapter 5 verse 11 Holy Bible
And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
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And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son;
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1st John 5 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - "And the substance of the internal testimony is this - we are conscious of the Divine gift of eternal life, and this we have in the Son of God." St. John's ζωὴ αἰώνιος is not "everlasting life:" the idea of endlessness may be included in it, but it is not the main one. The distinction between eternity and time is one which the human mind feels to be real and necessary. But we are apt to lose ourselves when we try to think of eternity. We admit that it is not time, that it is the very antithesis of time, and yet we attempt to measure it while we declare it to be immeasurable. We make it simply a very long time. The main idea of "eternal life" in St. John's writings has no direct reference to time. Eternal life is possessed already by believers; it is not a thing of the future (John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47, 54; John 17:3). It is that life in God which includes all blessedness, and which is not broken by physical death (John 11:25). Its opposite is exclusion from God.