First Reading: 1 John 5:5-13

⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
⁶ This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood.
⁷ And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
⁸ There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.
⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.
¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son.
¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
¹² He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.
¹³ I write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.