| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception. Loving One Another |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19We love each other because he loved us first. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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