Belief And Testimony

Qui credit in Filium Dei, habet testimonium Dei in se.  Qui ita credit in Filium Dei, ut exerceat operando quod credit, habet testimonium Dei in se. Illud utique quia ipse quoque in filiorum Dei numero jure computetur, ipso unico Filio Dei sic suis fidelibus pollicente: Si quis mihi ministraverit, honorificabit eum Pater meus. Quod si testimonium Dei habere merueris, si Deum testem tuae fidei intemeratae possederis, quid te hominum infamia, quid etiam persecutio laedit? Si enim Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos? Sanctus Beda, In I Epistolam Sancti Joannis Source: Migne PL 93.115c

He who believes in the son of God, has the testimony of God in himself. 1 Thus he who believes in the Son of God, so that he exerts himself in the doing of what he believes, he has the witness of God in himself. And that so that he is rightly reckoned among the number of the sons of God, as the only Son of God promised his faithful ones: 'If someone shall serve me, my Father shall honour him.' 2 If you merit the witness of God, if you have God as witness to your undefiled faith, what harm can the ill speech, or even the persecution of men do to you? For if God is with us, who is against us? 3 Saint Bede, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint John 1 1 Jn 5.10 2 Jn 12.26 3 Rom 8.31