1 John 4 - LSB Bible Online

1 John 4

Test the Spirits

^aBeloved, do not believe every ^bspirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because ^cmany false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: ^aevery spirit that ^bconfesses that ^cJesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that ^adoes not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the ^bantichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and ^cnow it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, ^alittle children, and ^bhave overcome them; because ^cgreater is He who is in you than ^dhe who is in the world. 5 ^aThey are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world hears them. 6 ^aWe are from God. ^bThe one who knows God hears us; ^cthe one who is not from God does not hear us. From this we know ^dthe spirit of truth and ^ethe spirit of error.

God Is Love

7 ^aBeloved, let us ^blove one another, for love is from God; and ^ceveryone who loves has been ¹^dborn of God and ^eknows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because ^aGod is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested ¹^ain us, that ^bGod has sent His ²only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, ^anot that we have loved God, but that ^bHe loved us and sent His Son to be ^cthe propitiation for our sins. 11 ^aBeloved, if God so loved us, ^bwe also ought to love one another. 12 ^aNo one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His ^blove is perfected in us. 13 ^aBy this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 We have beheld and ^abear witness that the Father has ^bsent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 ^aWhoever confesses that ^bJesus is the Son of God, God ^cabides in him, and he in God. 16 ^aAnd we have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^bin us. ^cGod is love, and the one who ^dabides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this, ^alove has been perfected with us, so that we may have ^bconfidence in ^cthe day of judgment, because ^das He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but ^aperfect love casts out fear, because fear ¹involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^bperfected in love. 19 ^aWe love, because He first loved us. 20 ^aIf someone says, “I love God,” and ^bhates his brother, he is a ^cliar; for ^dthe one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^ecannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And ^athis commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^bshould love his brother also.

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