1 John 5:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἥκει, καὶ δέδωκεν ἡμῖν διάνοιαν, ἵνα γινώσκωμεν τὸν ἀληθινόν, καὶ ἐσμὲν ἐν τῷ ἀληθινῷ, ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἀληθινὸς Θεὸς, καὶ ζωὴ αἰώνιος.

Transliteration

We oidamen de that the Huios of the Theou hēkei, and has dedōken to us dianoian, that we may ginōskōmen the alēthinon, and we esmen in the alēthinō, in the Huiō of him Iēsou Christō. This estin the alēthinos Theos, and zōē aiōnios.

Grammar Details

• *oidamen*: perfect active indicative, 1st plural - we know
• *de*: conjunction - and/but/now
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *Huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *hēkei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - has come
• *dedōken*: perfect active indicative, 3rd singular - has given
• *hēmin*: personal pronoun, dative, 1st plural - to us
• *dianoian*: accusative, feminine, singular - understanding/mind
• *hina*: conjunction introducing purpose clause - that/so that
• *ginōskōmen*: present active subjunctive, 1st plural - we may know
• *alēthinon*: accusative, masculine, singular - true one
• *esmen*: present indicative, 1st plural - we are
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *alēthinō*: dative, masculine, singular - true one
• *Huiō*: dative, masculine, singular - Son
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of him
• *Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christō*: dative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *houtos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - this one
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *alēthinos*: nominative, masculine, singular - true
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *zōē*: nominative, feminine, singular - life
• *aiōnios*: nominative, feminine, singular - eternal

Word Meanings

• *oidamen*: we know/we understand/we perceive
• *hēkei*: has come/is present/has arrived
• *dedōken*: has given/has granted/has bestowed
• *dianoian*: understanding/mind/intellect
• *ginōskōmen*: we may know/we may understand/we may recognize
• *alēthinon*: true one/genuine one/real one
• *esmen*: we are/we exist
• *alēthinō*: true one/genuine one/real one
• *Christō*: Christ/Anointed One/Messiah
• *alēthinos*: true/genuine/real
• *zōē*: life/existence/vitality
• *aiōnios*: eternal/everlasting/age-during

Referenced Verses

• John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
• Luke 24:45 : 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
• John 14:9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?
• Rev 3:7 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:
• Isa 9:6 : 6 For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: Amazing Adviser, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Isa 44:6 : 6 The Absurdity of Idolatry This is what the LORD, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.
• Rom 9:5 : 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
• John 10:30 : 30 The Father and I are one.”
• John 20:28 : 28 Thomas replied to him,“My Lord and my God!”
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
• Heb 1:8 : 8 but of the Son he says,“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
• John 1:1-3 : 1 ¶ The Prologue to the Gospel In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. 2 The Word was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.
• 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
• 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 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. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
• 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.
• Rev 3:14 : 14 To the Church in Laodicea“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation:
• Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”
• Rev 15:3 : 3 They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb:“Great and astounding are your deeds, Lord God, the All-Powerful! Just and true are your ways, King over the nations!
• Rev 19:11 : 11 The Son of God Goes to War Then I saw heaven opened and here came a white horse! The one riding it was called“Faithful” and“True,” and with justice he judges and goes to war.
• John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
• Matt 13:11 : 11 He replied,“You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
• Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
• Isa 45:14-15 : 14 The Lord is the Nations’ Only Hope This is what the LORD says:“The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you:‘Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!’” 15 Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, deliverer!
• Isa 45:21-25 : 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me. 22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer. 23 I solemnly make this oath– what I say is true and reliable:‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm; 24 they will say about me,“Yes, the LORD is a powerful deliverer.”’” All who are angry at him will cower before him. 25 All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the LORD and will boast in him.
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For your husband is the one who made you– the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called“God of the entire earth.”
• Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
• John 14:20 : 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
• John 15:4 : 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
• John 17:14 : 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
• John 17:20-23 : 20 Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony, 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one– 23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
• John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
• 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 ¶ The Prologue to the Letter This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched(concerning the word of life– 2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us). 3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
• 1 John 2:6 : 6 The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.
• 1 John 2:24 : 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
• 1 John 4:2 : 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
• 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away– look, what is new has come!
• Eph 1:17-19 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.
• Eph 3:18 : 18 you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
• Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
• Col 2:2-3 : 2 My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
• Jer 23:6 : 6 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The LORD has provided us with justice.’