1 John - 4

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1 B eloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 H ereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

3 a nd every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

4 Y e are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that in you than he that in the world.

5 T hey are of the world; for this reason they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 W e are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 B eloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

8 H e that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

9 H erein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 H erein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

11 B eloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 N o one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 H ereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

14 A nd we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son Saviour of the world.

15 W hosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 A nd we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

17 H erein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

18 T here is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

19 W e love because he has first loved us.

20 I f any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

21 A nd this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.