| Chapter 4
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1 | Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world. |
2 | Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: |
3 | And every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this
is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and
even now already is it in the world. |
4 | Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. |
5 | They are of the world:
therefore speak they 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 not us. Hereby know we 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 loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
8 | He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love. |
9 |
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his
only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. |
10 | Herein is love, not that
we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for
our sins. |
11 |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. |
12 | No man hath seen God at any
time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in
us. |
13 | Hereby
know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his
Spirit. |
14 | And
we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of
the world. |
15 |
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and
he in God. |
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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
17 | Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we
in this world. |
18 |
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear
hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. |
19 | We love him, because he first
loved us. |
20 | If
a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth
not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
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21 | And this
commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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