1 John 5:11
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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Study Note
'And this is the testimony: that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son' — the verse is the summary statement of 1 John's Christological argument: eternal life is located in a person, not in an experience, a doctrine, or a moral achievement. The construction 'this life is in his Son' (hē zōē en tō hyiō autou estin) is as ontologically dense as John 11:25 ('I am the resurrection and the life'), identifying the Son himself as the locus of eschatological existence. The following verse's implication — 'whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life' (1 John 5:12) — makes this verse the foundation for exclusive Christological soteriology. The context in 1 John 5:6–12 concerns the testimony of the Spirit, the water, and the blood, establishing that the life-giving testimony is itself a divine trinitarian witness.
Otras traducciones
And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;
And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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