| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. | 1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. |
| 2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, | 2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: |
| 3and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. | 3And 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. |
| 4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. | 4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. |
| 5They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. | 5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. |
| 6We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. | 6We 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. |
| 7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. | 7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
| 8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. | 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
| 9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. | 9In 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. |
| 10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. | 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
| 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. |
| 12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. | 12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
| 13By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. | 13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. |
| 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. | 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. |
| 15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. | 15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. |
| 16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. | 16And 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. |
| 17Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. | 17Herein 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. |
| 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. | 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. |
| 19We love Him because He first loved us. | 19We love him, because he first loved us. |
| 20If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? | 20If 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? |
| 21And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. | 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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