1 John 5:12 Parallel Translations

The person who has the Son has this life. The person who doesn't have the Son of God doesn't have this life.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

ASV:

He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

BBE:

He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

DBY:

He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.

ERV:

He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

WEY:

He who has the Son has the Life: he who has not the Son of God has not the Life.

WBS:

He that hath the Son, hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life.

WEB:

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

YLT:

he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.

1 John 5:12 Cross References

XREF:

John 3:15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

John 3:36 "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

5:12 He that hath the Son hath life. We lay hold of the Son by faith in him and thus come to life.

WES:

5:12 It plainly follows, he that hath the Son - Living and reigning in him by faith. Hath this life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not this life - Hath no part or lot therein. In the former clause, the apostle says simply, the Son; because believers know him: in the latter, the Son of God; that unbelievers may know how great a blessing they fall short of.

MHC:

5:9-12 Nothing can be more absurd than the conduct of those who doubt as to the truth of Christianity, while in the common affairs of life they do not hesitate to proceed on human testimony, and would deem any one out of his senses who declined to do so. The real Christian has seen his guilt and misery, and his need of such a Saviour. He has seen the suitableness of such a Saviour to all his spiritual wants and circumstances. He has found and felt the power of the word and doctrine of Christ, humbling, healing, quickening, and comforting his soul. He has a new disposition, and new delights, and is not the man that he formerly was. Yet he finds still a conflict with himself, with sin, with the flesh, the world, and wicked powers. But he finds such strength from faith in Christ, that he can overcome the world, and travel on towards a better. Such assurance has the gospel believer: he has a witness in himself, which puts the matter out of doubt with him, except in hours of darkness or conflict; but he cannot be argued out of his belief in the leading truths of the gospel. Here is what makes the unbeliever's sin so awful; the sin of unbelief. He gives God the lie; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son. It is in vain for a man to plead that he believes the testimony of God in other things, while he rejects it in this. He that refuses to trust and honour Christ as the Son of God, who disdains to submit to his teaching as Prophet, to rely on his atonement and intercession as High Priest, or to obey him as King, is dead in sin, under condemnation; nor will any outward morality, learning, forms, notions, or confidences avail him.

CONC:

Doesn't God's

God's Life

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