Epistula I Ioannis, 5
1. Omnis, qui credit quoniam Iesus est Christus, ex Deo natus est; et omnis, qui diligit Deum, qui genuit, diligit et eum, qui natus est ex eo.
1. Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.
2. In hoc cognoscimus quoniam diligimus natos Dei, cum Deum diligamus et mandata eius faciamus.
2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
3. Haec est enim caritas Dei, ut mandata eius servemus; et mandata eius gravia non sunt,
3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
4. quoniam omne, quod natum est ex Deo, vincit mundum; et haec est victoria, quae vicit mundum: fides nostra.
4. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
5. Quis est qui vincit mundum, nisi qui credit quoniam Iesus est Filius Dei?
5. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. Hic est, qui venit per aquam et sanguinem, Iesus Christus; non in aqua solum sed in aqua et in sanguine. Et Spiritus est, qui testificatur, quoniam Spiritus est veritas.
6. This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood.
7. Quia tres sunt, qui testificantur:
7. And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
8. Spiritus et aqua et sanguis; et hi tres in unum sunt.
8. There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.
9. Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei maius est, quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quia testificatus est de Filio suo.
9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.
10. Qui credit in Filium Dei, habet testimonium in se. Qui non credit Deo, mendacem facit eum, quoniam non credidit in testimonium, quod testificatus est Deus de Filio suo.
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 borne to his Son.
11. Et hoc est testimonium, quoniam vitam aeternam dedit nobis Deus, et haec vita in Filio eius est.
11. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12. Qui habet Filium, habet vitam; qui non habet Filium Dei, vitam non habet.
12. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.
13. Haec scripsi vobis, ut sciatis quoniam vitam habetis aeternam, qui creditis in nomen Filii Dei.
13. I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
14. Et haec est fiducia, quam habemus ad eum, quia si quid petierimus secundum voluntatem eius, audit nos.
14. And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
15. Et si scimus quoniam audit nos, quidquid petierimus, scimus quoniam habemus petitiones, quas postulavimus ab eo.
15. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.
16. Si quis videt fratrem suum peccare peccatum non ad mortem, petet, et dabit ei Deus vitam, peccantibus non ad mortem. Est peccatum ad mortem; non pro illo dico, ut roget.
16. If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that.
17. Omnis iniustitia peccatum est, et est peccatum non ad mortem.
17. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.
18. Scimus quoniam omnis, qui natus est ex Deo, non peccat, sed ille, qui genitus est ex Deo, conservat eum, et Malignus non tangit eum.
18. We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
19. Scimus quoniam ex Deo sumus, et mundus totus in Maligno positus est.
19. We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.
20. Et scimus quoniam Filius Dei venit et dedit nobis sensum, ut cognoscamus eum, qui verus est; et sumus in eo, qui verus est, in Filio eius Iesu Christo. Hic est qui verus est, Deus et vita aeterna.
20. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
21. Filioli, custodite vos a simulacris!
21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
