Bible Book - INDEX

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4:1 Beloved, do* not believe every spirit, but test* the spirits, to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

4:2 The Spirit of God is known in this. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you* have heard, that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

4:4 You* are from God, my little-children and overcame them, because greater is he who is in you* than he who is in the world.

4:5 They are from the world; because of this they speak as from the world and the world hears them.

4:6 We are from God. He who knows God, hears us; he who is not from God does not hear us. We know from this: {F} the spirit of truth, and the spirit of deceit.


4:7 Beloved, we should love* one another, because love* is from God, and everyone who loves* has been born from God and knows God.

4:8 He who does not love*, does not know God, because God is love*.

4:9 In this, the love* of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through him.

4:10 In this is love*, not that we loved* God, but that he loved* us and sent his Son to be the atonement on behalf of our sins.

4:11 Beloved, if God so loved* us, we also ought to love* one another.

4:12 No one has seen God at anytime; if we love* one another, God is abiding in us and his love* is completed in us.

4:13 We know in this that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given to us from his Spirit.

4:14 And we have seen and are testifying that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

4:15 Whoever confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

4:16 And we have known and have believed the love* which God has in us. God is love*, and he who abides in love* abides in God and God abides in him.

4:17 In this, love* has been completed with us, in order that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just-as that man is complete, we are also complete in this world.

4:18 There is no fear in love*, but mature love* casts out the fear, because the fear has punishment, and he who fears has not been matured in love*.

4:19 We love* him, because he loved* us first.

4:20 If anyone say, I love* God and then should hate his brother, he is a liar; for* he who does not love* his brother, whom he has seen, how is he able to love* God, whom he has not seen?

4:21 And we have this commandment from him, in order that he who loves* God should also love* his brother. {Footnotes: 1Jn 4:6, or: the Spirit of the Truth and the Spirit of the Deceit. A contrast, God vs. the Adversary.}