| Chapter 4
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
