And this is the testimony:
God has given us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
Whoever has the Son has life;
whoever does not have the
Son of God does not have life.
I write these things to you who
believe in the name of the Son
of God so that you may know
that you have eternal life. This
is the confidence we have in
approaching God: that if we ask
anything according to his will,
he hears us. And if we know
that he hears us
—whatever we ask— we know
that we have what we asked of him.