Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 1 John 5:14

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”

1 John 5:14 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 John 5:14, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of 1 John 5. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • John 14:13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • Jeremiah 29:12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
  • Jeremiah 33:3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
  • 1 John 3:21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
  • John 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
  • Matthew 7:7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
  • Matthew 21:22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
  • Psalms 34:17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
  • John 9:31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
  • Ephesians 3:12In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
  • James 4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
  • John 16:24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
  • James 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  • Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

More to meet God in 1 John

1 John 1:91 John 4:191 John 4:181 John 3:11 John 4:81 John 5:201 John 2:11 John 5:61 John 5:111 John 1:31 John 3:221 John 2:161 John 2:131 John 1:2

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.