1 João 4

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 ye know the spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth Jesus Christ come in the flesh, is of God.

³ And every spirit which confesseth not Jesus Christ come in the flesh, is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and now already it is in the world.

⁴ Ye are of God, beloved 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 Hereby was manifested the love of God toward us, because 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, a 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 abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

¹³ Hereby we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify, that the Father sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess, that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

¹⁶ And we know and believe the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

¹⁷ Hereby 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.

¹⁹ He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 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?

²¹ And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also.