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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 4

Testing the Spirits

11Beloved, do not believe every 2spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because 3many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: 4every spirit that 5confesses that 6Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3and every spirit that 7does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the 8antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and 9now it is already in the world. 4You are from God, 10little children, and 11have overcome them; because 12greater is He who is in you than 13he who is in the world. 514They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 615We are from God; 16he who knows God listens to us; 17he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know 18the spirit of truth and 19the spirit of error.

God Is Love

720Beloved, let us 21love one another, for love is from God; and 22everyone who loves is 2324born of God and 25knows God. 8The one who does not love does not know God, for 26God is love. 9By this the love of God was manifested 2728in us, that 29God has sent His 30only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, 31not that we loved God, but that 32He loved us and sent His Son to be 33the propitiation for our sins. 1134Beloved, if God so loved us, 35we also ought to love one another. 1236No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His 37love is perfected in us. 1338By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14We have seen and 39testify that the Father has 40sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

1541Whoever confesses that 42Jesus is the Son of God, God 43abides in him, and he in God. 1644We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 4546for us. 47God is love, and the one who 48abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, 49love is perfected with us, so that we may have 50confidence in 51the day of judgment; because 52as He is, so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but 53perfect love casts out fear, because fear 54involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 55perfected in love. 1956We love, because He first loved us. 2057If someone says, “I love God,” and 58hates his brother, he is a 59liar; for 60the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, 61cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And 62this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God 63should love his brother also.

Notes

  1. 1. 1 John 4:1 3 John 11 ↩
  2. 2. 1 John 4:1 Jer 29:8; 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Thess 5:20f; 2 Thess 2:2 ↩
  3. 3. 1 John 4:1 Jer 14:14; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 John 2:18 ↩
  4. 4. 1 John 4:2 1 Cor 12:3 ↩
  5. 5. 1 John 4:2 1 John 2:23 ↩
  6. 6. 1 John 4:2 John 1:14; 1 John 1:2 ↩
  7. 7. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:22; 2 John 7 ↩
  8. 8. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:18, 22 ↩
  9. 9. 1 John 4:3 2 Thess 2:3-7; 1 John 2:18 ↩
  10. 10. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:1 ↩
  11. 11. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:13 ↩
  12. 12. 1 John 4:4 Rom 8:31; 1 John 3:20 ↩
  13. 13. 1 John 4:4 John 12:31 ↩
  14. 14. 1 John 4:5 John 15:19; 17:14, 16 ↩
  15. 15. 1 John 4:6 John 8:23; 1 John 4:4 ↩
  16. 16. 1 John 4:6 John 8:47; 10:3ff; 18:37 ↩
  17. 17. 1 John 4:6 1 Cor 14:37 ↩
  18. 18. 1 John 4:6 John 14:17 ↩
  19. 19. 1 John 4:6 1 Tim 4:1 ↩
  20. 20. 1 John 4:7 1 John 2:7 ↩
  21. 21. 1 John 4:7 1 John 3:11 ↩
  22. 22. 1 John 4:7 1 John 5:1 ↩
  23. 23. 1 John 4:7 Or begotten ↩
  24. 24. 1 John 4:7 1 John 2:29 ↩
  25. 25. 1 John 4:7 1 Cor 8:3; 1 John 2:3 ↩
  26. 26. 1 John 4:8 1 John 4:7, 16 ↩
  27. 27. 1 John 4:9 Or in our case ↩
  28. 28. 1 John 4:9 John 9:3; 1 John 4:16 ↩
  29. 29. 1 John 4:9 John 3:16f; 1 John 4:10; 5:11 ↩
  30. 30. 1 John 4:9 Or unique, only one of His kind ↩
  31. 31. 1 John 4:10 Rom 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19 ↩
  32. 32. 1 John 4:10 John 3:16f; 1 John 4:9; 5:11 ↩
  33. 33. 1 John 4:10 1 John 2:2 ↩
  34. 34. 1 John 4:11 1 John 2:7 ↩
  35. 35. 1 John 4:11 1 John 4:7 ↩
  36. 36. 1 John 4:12 John 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 4:20 ↩
  37. 37. 1 John 4:12 1 John 2:5; 4:17f ↩
  38. 38. 1 John 4:13 Rom 8:9; 1 John 3:24 ↩
  39. 39. 1 John 4:14 John 15:27; 1 John 1:2 ↩
  40. 40. 1 John 4:14 John 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2 ↩
  41. 41. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:23 ↩
  42. 42. 1 John 4:15 Rom 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5 ↩
  43. 43. 1 John 4:15 1 John 2:24; 3:24 ↩
  44. 44. 1 John 4:16 John 6:69 ↩
  45. 45. 1 John 4:16 Lit in ↩
  46. 46. 1 John 4:16 John 9:3; 1 John 4:9 ↩
  47. 47. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:7, 8 ↩
  48. 48. 1 John 4:16 1 John 4:12f ↩
  49. 49. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:5; 4:12 ↩
  50. 50. 1 John 4:17 1 John 2:28 ↩
  51. 51. 1 John 4:17 Matt 10:15 ↩
  52. 52. 1 John 4:17 John 17:22; 1 John 2:6; 3:1, 7, 16 ↩
  53. 53. 1 John 4:18 Rom 8:15 ↩
  54. 54. 1 John 4:18 Lit has ↩
  55. 55. 1 John 4:18 1 John 4:12 ↩
  56. 56. 1 John 4:19 1 John 4:10 ↩
  57. 57. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6, 8, 10; 2:4 ↩
  58. 58. 1 John 4:20 1 John 2:9, 11 ↩
  59. 59. 1 John 4:20 1 John 1:6 ↩
  60. 60. 1 John 4:20 1 John 3:17 ↩
  61. 61. 1 John 4:20 1 Pet 1:8; 1 John 4:12 ↩
  62. 62. 1 John 4:21 Lev 19:18; Matt 5:43f; 22:37ff; John 13:34 ↩
  63. 63. 1 John 4:21 1 John 3:11 ↩

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