1 John 5:9

Translations

Modern

Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.

Traditional

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

Literal

If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He has testified concerning His Son.

Latin

Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus est: quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quod majus est, quoniam testificatus est de Filio suo.

Original

Greek

English

Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.

Related verses

Matthew 3:16–17
As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
Matthew 17:5
While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
Acts 17:31
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
John 8:17–19
Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
Acts 5:32
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
1 John 5:10
Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
Hebrews 2:4
…and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
John 3:32–33
He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
John 5:39
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
John 10:38
But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
John 5:31–37
If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.
Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

Glossary

Son of God

Topics

Jesus, the Christ: Other Scriptures Relating to his Messiahship Jesus, the Christ: Son of God The Holy Spirit: is God: As the Witness Witness of the Holy Spirit: To be Implicitly Received

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