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1 John 4

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1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. ✦ 2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: ✦ 3And 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. ✦ 4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. ✦ 5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. ✦ 6We 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. ✦ 7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ✦ 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. ✦ 9In 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. ✦ 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ✦ 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ✦ 12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ✦ 13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. ✦ 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. ✦ 15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. ✦ 16And 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. ✦ 17Herein 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. ✦ 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. ✦ 19We love him, because he first loved us. ✦ 20If 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? ✦ 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. ✦

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1 Jn 4 ·301 Jn 3 ·221 Jn 2 ·17John 3 ·9Rom 8 ·8John 15 ·81 Jn 5 ·7John 10 ·6

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Jesus is the Word of life made manifest, the propitiation for our sins, the Son in whom is eternal life — 'that you may know that you have eternal life.'

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