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Chapter 4
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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
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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is
of God: |
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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
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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
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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the
world, and the world heareth them. |
6
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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
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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;
and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth
God. |
8
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
9
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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
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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
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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love
one another. |
12
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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
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Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit. |
14
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent
the Son to be the Saviour of the world. |
15
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Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
God dwelleth in him, and he in God. |
16
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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
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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
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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
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We love him, because he first loved us. |
20
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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? |
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And this commandment have we from him, That he who
loveth God love his brother also. |
