13 I wrote these things to you so that you all could know that you have eternal life, that is the ones believed in the name and authority of God’s son. 14 And so we have confidence in God that if we request anything according to his will, he hears us 15 whatever we’re requesting, and we know that we’ll receive what we requested.

16 If anyone sees a fellow believer committing a forgivable sin, then that person should ask God on their behalf and God will give life to that fellow believer. (But there is a sin that always results in death and I’m not suggesting that we should ask in that case.) 17 All disobedience is sin, but there are sins that don’t necessarily lead to death.

18 We know that everyone who’s been reborn into God doesn’t keep sinning, but the messiah who was born from God watches over them and so the evil one can’t touch them.

19 We know that we belong to God and that the whole word is under the control of the evil one.

20 We know that God’s son has come and helped our minds so that we could know the true one, and we are in the true one and also in his son, Yeshua the messiah—the true God and eternal life itself.

21 You new believers, don’t honour idols.