^{9 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

^{12 Ref} He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

^{13 Ref} 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.