This is the One who came (A)by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not [a]with the water only, but [b]with the water and [c]with the blood. It is (B)the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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  1. 1 John 5:6 Lit in
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  3. 1 John 5:6 Lit in

This is the one who came by water and blood(A)—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.(B)

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[a]the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are [b]in agreement.

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  1. 1 John 5:8 A few late mss add ...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit
  2. 1 John 5:8 Lit for the one thing

the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

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  1. 1 John 5:8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the fourteenth century)