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4:1 |
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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4:2 |
By this ye know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ hath come in the flesh, is from God:
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4:3 |
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not from God. And this is that [spirit] of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come; and even now already it is in the world.
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4:4 |
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.
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4:5 |
They are of the world: therefore they speak from the world, and the world heareth them.
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4:6 |
We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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4:7 |
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is from God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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4:8 |
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
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4:9 |
In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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4:10 |
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
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4:11 |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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4:12 |
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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4:13 |
By this we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
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4:14 |
And we have seen and do testify, that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Savior of the world.
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4:15 |
Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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4:16 |
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.
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4:17 |
In this 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.
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4:18 |
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.
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4:19 |
We love him, because he first loved us.
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4:20 |
If a man sayeth, 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?
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4:21 |
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also.
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