1 John 4:1-10 ▼

1 Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

3 and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you, is greater than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know 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 loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.

8 He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.