1 John 4:1-10 ▼

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

2 In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,

3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is not of God; and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

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

5 They are of the world, because they speak of this from the world, and the world hears them;

6 we are of God; he who is knowing God hears us; he who is not of God, does not hear us; from this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;

8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

9 In this was revealed the love of God in us, because God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him;

10 in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.