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New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 4:2-21

2By this you know the Spirit of God: 1every spirit that 2confesses that 3Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3and every spirit that 4does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the 5antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and 6now it is already in the world. 4You are from God, 7little children, and 8have overcome them; because 9greater is He who is in you than 10he who is in the world. 511They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 612We are from God; 13he who knows God listens to us; 14he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know 15the spirit of truth and 16the spirit of error.

717Beloved, let us 18love one another, for love is from God; and 19everyone who loves is 2021born of God and 22knows God. 8The one who does not love does not know God, for 23God is love. 9By this the love of God was manifested 2425in us, that 26God has sent His 27only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, 28not that we loved God, but that 29He loved us and sent His Son to be 30the propitiation for our sins. 1131Beloved, if God so loved us, 32we also ought to love one another. 1233No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His 34love is perfected in us. 1335By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14We have seen and 36testify that the Father has 37sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

1538Whoever confesses that 39Jesus is the Son of God, God 40abides in him, and he in God. 1641We have come to know and have believed the love which God has 4243for us. 44God is love, and the one who 45abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17By this, 46love is perfected with us, so that we may have 47confidence in 48the day of judgment; because 49as He is, so also are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but 50perfect love casts out fear, because fear 51involves punishment, and the one who fears is not 52perfected in love. 1953We love, because He first loved us. 2054If someone says, “I love God,” and 55hates his brother, he is a 56liar; for 57the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, 58cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And 59this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God 60should love his brother also.

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Notes

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

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