1 John 5:9 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
If we accept the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater: that he has testified about his Son.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
If 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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.
LSV Literal Standard Version
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He has testified concerning His Son.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God [which] he has witnessed concerning his Son.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony of God which he hath testified of his Son.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
If we receiue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the witnesse of God, which he testified of his Sonne.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For the testimony of God is this, that he has borne witness concerning his Son.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
Yf we receave the witnes of men the witnes of god is greater. For this is the witnes of god which he testifyed of his sonne.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.
FBV Free Bible Version
If we accept the evidence that human witnesses provide, then the evidence that God provides is much more important. The evidence that God provides is his testimony about his Son.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Si recibimos el testimonio de los hombres, mayor es el testimonio de Dios, pues éste es el testimonio de Dios, que es el mayor, porque el ha testificado de su Hijo.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Si recibimos el testimonio de los hombres, el testimonio de Dios es mayor; porque éste es el testimonio de Dios, que ha testificado de su Hijo.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Y si aceptamos el testimonio de los hombres que comparecen ante los tribunales, cuánto más no hemos de creer la gran afirmación de Dios: ¡que Jesús es su Hijo!
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Si recibimos el testimonio de los hombres, el testimonio de Dios es mayor, porque éste es el testimonio de Dios, Quien testificó acerca de su Hijo.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Si aceptamos la evidencia que dan los testigos humanos, entonces la evidencia que da Dios es más importante. La evidencia que Dios da es su testimonio sobre su Hijo.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Si recibimos el testimonio de los hombres, mayor es el testimonio de Dios. Porque este es el testimonio de Dios: que él ha dado testimonio acerca de su Hijo.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
εἰ τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαμβάνομεν, ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ μείζων ἐστίν· ὅτι αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ ἣν μεμαρτύρηκε περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
ει την μαρτυριαν των ανθρωπων λαμβανομεν, η μαρτυρια του θεου μειζων εστιν· οτι αυτη εστιν η μαρτυρια του θεου ην μεμαρτυρηκεν περι του υιου αυτου.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Εἰ τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαμβάνομεν, ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ μείζων ἐστίν· ὅτι αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἣν μεμαρτύρηκε περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
ει την μαρτυριαν των ανθρωπων λαμβανομεν η μαρτυρια του θεου μειζων εστιν οτι αυτη εστιν η μαρτυρια του θεου ην μεμαρτυρηκεν περι του υιου αυτου
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
εἰ τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαμβάνομεν, ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ μείζων ἐστίν, ὅτι αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ Θεοῦ ὅτι μεμαρτύρηκεν περὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
εἰ τὴν μαρτυρίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαμβάνομεν, ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ θεοῦ μείζων ἐστίν, ὅτι αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ μαρτυρία τοῦ θεοῦ ⸀ὅτι μεμαρτύρηκεν περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus est: quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quod majus est, quoniam testificatus est de Filio suo.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
А҆́ще свидѣ́тельство человѣ́ческое прїе́млемъ, свидѣ́тельство бж҃їе бо́лѣе є҆́сть: ꙗ҆́кѡ сїѐ є҆́сть свидѣ́тельство бж҃їе, є҆́же свидѣ́тельствова ѡ҆ сн҃ѣ свое́мъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Если мы принимаем свидетельство человеческое, свидетельство Божие — больше, ибо это есть свидетельство Божие, которым Бог свидетельствовал о Сыне Своем.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Εάν δεχώμεθα την μαρτυρίαν των ανθρώπων, η μαρτυρία του Θεού είναι μεγαλητέρα· διότι αύτη είναι η μαρτυρία του Θεού, την οποίαν εμαρτύρησε περί του Υιού αυτού.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Кад примамо сведочанство човечије, сведочанство је Божије веће; јер је ово сведочанство Божије што сведочи за Сина свог.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Kad primamo svedočanstvo čovečije, svedočanstvo je Božije veće; jer je ovo svedočanstvo Božije što svedoči za Sina svog.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
إِنْ كُنَّا نَقْبَلُ شَهَادَةَ ٱلنَّاسِ، فَشَهَادَةُ ٱللهِ أَعْظَمُ، لِأَنَّ هَذِهِ هِيَ شَهَادَةُ ٱللهِ ٱلَّتِي قَدْ شَهِدَ بِهَا عَنِ ٱبْنِهِ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC