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New Living Translation

1 John 5:12

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God's Son does not have life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Fellowship;   Jesus Continued;   Life;   Regeneration;   Righteous;   Unbelief;   Thompson Chain Reference - Life;   Life, Christ the;   Life-Death;   The Topic Concordance - Eternal Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assurance;   Faith;   Jesus christ;   Life;   Son of god;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Life;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Faith;   John, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John, the Letters of;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Blessedness;   John, Epistles of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Death of Christ;   Eternal Life (2);   Faith ;   Heir Heritage Inheritance;   John Epistles of;   Life and Death;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Life, Eternal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Johannine Theology, the;   John, the Epistles of;   Life;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 23;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 18;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If you ride with the Son, you will ride forever. If you don't, then you won't.
Bible in Basic English
He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
Darby Translation
He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
World English Bible
He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Weymouth's New Testament
He who has the Son has the Life: he who has not the Son of God has not the Life.
King James Version (1611)
Hee that hath the Sonne, hath life; and hee that hath not the Sonne, hath not life.
Literal Translation
The one having the Son has life. The one not having the Son of God does not have life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that hath the sonne of God, hath life: He that hath not the sonne of God, hath not life.
Mace New Testament (1729)
he that receives the son, is intitled to life; and he that does not receive the son of God, has no title to life.
Amplified Bible
He who has the Son [by accepting Him as Lord and Savior] has the life [that is eternal]; he who does not have the Son of God [by personal faith] does not have the life.
American Standard Version
He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.
Revised Standard Version
He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
He that hath the sonne hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of god hath not lyfe.
Update Bible Version
He that has the Son, has the life; he that does not have the Son of God, does not have the life.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that hath the Son, hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life.
Young's Literal Translation
he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.
New Century Version
Whoever has the Son has life, but whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
New English Translation
The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
Berean Standard Bible
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Contemporary English Version
And so, if we have God's Son, we have this life. But if we don't have the Son, we don't have this life.
Complete Jewish Bible
Those who have the Son have the life; those who do not have the Son of God do not have the life.
English Standard Version
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that hath that Sonne, hath yt life: and he that hath not yt Sonne of God, hath not that life.
George Lamsa Translation
He who believes on the Son has life; he who does not believe on the Son of God does not have life.
Christian Standard Bible®
The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life.
Hebrew Names Version
He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.
International Standard Version
The person who has the Son has this life. The person who does not have the Son of God does not have this life.John 3:36; 5:24;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
12 Every one who apprehendeth [fn] the Son, apprehendeth also life; and every one who apprehendeth not the Son of Aloha, hath not life.
Murdock Translation
Every one that taketh hold of the Son, taketh hold of life; and every one that taketh not hold of the Son, hath not life.
New King James Version
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
New Life Bible
He that has the Son has life. He that does not have the Son of God does not have life.
English Revised Version
He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.
New Revised Standard
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that hath the Son, hath, the life, - he that hath not the Son of God, hath not, the life.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not life.
King James Version
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Lexham English Bible
The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that hath the sonne, hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of God, hath not lyfe.
Easy-to-Read Version
Whoever has the Son has life, but whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
New American Standard Bible
The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
Good News Translation
Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that hath the sone of God, hath also lijf; he that hath not the sone of God, hath not lijf.

Contextual Overview

10 All who believe in the Son of God know in their hearts that this testimony is true. Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don't believe what God has testified about his Son. 11 And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God's Son does not have life. 13 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that hath the: 1 John 2:23, 1 John 2:24, John 1:12, John 3:36, John 5:24, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Galatians 2:20, Hebrews 3:14, 2 John 1:9

and he: Mark 16:16, John 3:36

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:15 - General Proverbs 8:35 - whoso Matthew 13:46 - one Matthew 25:46 - the righteous Mark 1:1 - Christ Mark 9:7 - This Mark 12:6 - one Luke 10:42 - one John 3:18 - is not John 5:36 - I have John 6:47 - He that John 6:53 - eat John 11:25 - the life John 14:6 - the life John 17:3 - and Jesus Acts 3:15 - Prince Acts 4:12 - is there Acts 5:20 - all Romans 3:27 - but by Romans 6:23 - but the 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening 2 Corinthians 9:15 - his Colossians 2:6 - received Colossians 3:4 - our Colossians 3:11 - but 1 Timothy 1:16 - believe 1 Timothy 2:6 - to be testified 2 Timothy 1:8 - the testimony 2 Timothy 3:15 - which James 1:17 - good 1 John 5:11 - this Revelation 20:15 - whosoever

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the son of Kenan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that hath the Son,.... Has a spiritual and experimental knowledge of him, true faith in him; who has him dwelling in his heart, and living in him:

hath life: not only spiritual life, being quickened by him, and living by faith on him, but eternal life; the knowledge he has of him is eternal life; he has it in faith and hope, and has a right unto it, and the earnest of it, as well as has it in Christ his representative, whom he has, and in whom this life is:

[and] he that hath not the Son of God; no knowledge of him, nor faith in him, nor enjoyment of him:

hath not life; he is dead in sin, he is alienated from the life of God, has no title to eternal life, nor meetness for it, nor shall enjoy it, but shall die the second death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that hath the Son, hath life - See the notes at John 5:24. John evidently designs to refer to that passage in the verse before us, and to state a principle laid down by the Saviour himself. This is the sense of all the important testimony that had ever been borne by God on the subject of salvation, that he who believes in the Lord Jesus already has the elements of eternal life in his soul, and will certainly obtain salvation. Compare the notes at John 17:3.

And he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life - He that does not believe on him will not attain to eternal life. See the John 3:36 note; Mark 16:16 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. He that hath the Son hath life — As the eternal life is given IN the Son of God, it follows that it cannot be enjoyed without him. No man can have it without having Christ; therefore he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life. It is in vain to expect eternal glory, if we have not Christ in our heart. The indwelling Christ gives both a title to it, and a meetness for it. This is God's record. Let no man deceive himself here. An indwelling Christ and GLORY; no indwelling Christ, NO glory. God's record must stand.


 
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