1 John 5:11

KJV

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

— 1 John 5:11, King James Version
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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.

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ASV

And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

YLT

and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;

BBE

And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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