Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false
prophets are gone out into the world.
02 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit
that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is of God:
03 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.
04 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.
05 They are of the world: therefore speak they of
the world, and the world heareth them.
06 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.
07 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is
of God; and every one that loveth is born of God,
and knoweth God.
08 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is
love.
09 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 Herein 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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11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to
love one another.
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.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in
us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the
Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the
world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son
of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
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.
17 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 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 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 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?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he
who loveth God love his brother also.
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