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1 John 5:9–10
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1 John 5:9
9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
9If we receiue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the witnesse of God, which hee hath testified of his Sonne.
1 John 5:10
10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
10Hee that beleeueth on the Sonne of God, hath the witnesse in himselfe: he that beleeueth not God, hath made him a liar, because he beleeueth not the record that God gaue of his Sonne.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 John 5:9
To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
One who testifies from knowledge; testimony; as a verb, to see, attest, or testify.
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A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Given in evidence; witnessed; published; made known.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 John 5:10
Believes, trusts, or places faith in.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One who testifies from knowledge; testimony; as a verb, to see, attest, or testify.
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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
One who knowingly speaks falsehood or denies the truth.
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For the reason that; since.
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A written or remembered account; testimony; also to set down or bear witness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bestowed, delivered, granted, or caused, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 9
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Open the full verse study16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Open the full verse study31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
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Open the full verse study17It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
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Open the full verse study5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
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Open the full verse study10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
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Open the full verse study32And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
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Open the full verse study4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
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Open the full verse study38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
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Open the full verse study32And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
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Open the full verse study39¶ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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Open the full verse study31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32¶ There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
33Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
35He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36¶ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
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Open the full verse study18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
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Open the full verse study6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
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Open the full verse study33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
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Open the full verse study38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
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Open the full verse study12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
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Open the full verse study1WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
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Open the full verse study3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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Open the full verse study19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Open the full verse study14The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
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Open the full verse study10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Open the full verse study32For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
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Open the full verse study17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
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Open the full verse study19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
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Open the full verse study1WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
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Open the full verse study25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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Open the full verse study16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study28And I will give him the morning star.
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Open the full verse study18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
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