Iohannis I 5
1 Omnis, qui credit, quoniam Iesus est Christus, ex Deo natus est. Et omnis, qui diligit eum qui genuit, diligit et eum qui natus est ex eo.
Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
2 In hoc cognoscimus quoniam diligamus natos Dei, cum Deum diligamus, et mandata eius faciamus.
In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.
3 Haec est enim charitas Dei, ut mandata eius custodiamus: et mandata eius gravia non sunt.
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
4 Quoniam omne, quod natum est ex Deo, vincit mundum: et haec est victoria, quae vincit mundum, fides nostra.
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
5 Quis est, qui vincit mundum, nisi qui credit quoniam Iesus est filius Dei?
Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith 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 sanguine. Et spiritus est, qui testificatur, quoniam Christus est veritas.
This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.
7 Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in caelo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus sanctus: et hi tres unum sunt.
And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.
8 Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra: Spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt.
There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.
9 Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei maius est: quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quod maius est, quoniam testificatus est de Filio suo.
If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.
10 Qui credit in Filium Dei, habet testimonium Dei in se. Qui non credit Filio, mendacem facit eum: quia non credit in testimonium quod testificatus est Deus de Filio suo.
He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
11 Et hoc est testimonium, quoniam vitam aeternam dedit nobis Deus. Et haec vita in Filio eius est. (aiōnios g166)
And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (aiōnios g166)
12 Qui habet Filium Dei, habet vitam: qui non habet Filium Dei, vitam non habet.
He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
13 Haec scribo vobis: ut sciatis quoniam vitam habetis aeternam, qui creditis in nomine Filii Dei. (aiōnios g166)
I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
14 Et haec est fiducia, quam habemus ad Deum: Quia quodcumque petierimus secundum voluntatem eius, audit nos.
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:
15 Et scimus quia audit nos quidquid petierimus: scimus quoniam habemus petitiones quas postulamus ab eo.
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
16 Qui scit fratrem suum peccare peccatum non ad mortem, petat, et dabitur ei vita peccanti non ad mortem. Est peccatum ad mortem: non pro illo dico ut roget quis.
If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
17 Omnis iniquitas, peccatum est: et est peccatum ad mortem.
All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
18 Scimus quia omnis, qui natus est ex Deo, non peccat: sed generatio Dei conservat eum, et malignus non tangit eum.
We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
19 Scimus quoniam ex Deo sumus: et mundus totus in maligno positus est.
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
20 Et scimus quoniam Filius Dei venit, et dedit nobis sensum ut cognoscamus verum Deum, et simus in vero Filio eius. Hic est verus Deus, et vita aeterna. (aiōnios g166)
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
21 Filioli, custodite vos a simulacris. Amen.
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
