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. |
|
16: 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? |
|
21: And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God
love his brother also. |