1 John 4:1-8 ▼

1 BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

2 By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.

3 And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

4 Ye are of God, my dear 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 speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

7 Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.