1 John 4:1-16 ▼

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

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

3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not of God, and this is that of the antichrist, which you? heard that is coming, and now is already in the world.

4 You? are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is the One in you? than the one in the world.

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

6 We are of God. The one knowing God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. By 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 born of God and knows God.

8 The one not loving has not known God, because God is love.

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, so 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 as a propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 No one has seen God at any time; if we may love one another, God remains in us, and His love is having been perfected in us.

13 In this we know that we remain in Him and He in us: because from out of His Spirit He has given to us.

14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

15 Whoever should confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one remaining in love remains in God, and God remains in him.