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I JOHN ยท Chapter 4
4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone
out into the world.
4:2 Hereby know all of you the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of
God:
4:3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof all of you have heard that it should come; and even now already
is it in the world.
4:4 All of you are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the
world hears them.
4:6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God
hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit
of error.
4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;
and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
4:8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him.
4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
4:12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells
in us, and his love is perfected in us.
4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
has given us of his Spirit.
4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to
be the Saviour of the world.
4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells
in him, and he in God.
4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God has
to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells
in God, and God in him.
4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness
in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect
in love.
4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hates 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?
4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love
his brother also.
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