| Chapter 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. |
| 2 | Hereby know ye the Spirit of
God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: |
| 3 |
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye
have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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| 4 | Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater
is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. |
| 5 | They are of
the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
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| 6 | We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God
heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of
error. |
| 7 |
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
| 8 | He that loveth
not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11
| Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another. |
| 12
| No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another,
God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
| 13 | Hereby know
we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his
Spirit. |
| 14
| And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the
Son to be the Saviour of the world. |
| 15 | Whosoever shall confess that
Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. |
| 16 | And
we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
| 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. |
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18 | There is no fear in
love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that
feareth is not made perfect in love. |
| 19 | We love him, because he first
loved us. |
| 20
| If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen? |
| 21 | And this commandment have we from him, That
he who loveth God love his brother also. |
