{"book":"1 John","slug":"1-john","ch":4,"genre":"letter","sub":"1 John","prev":"1-john/3","next":"1-john/5","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to see] whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.","f":[],"h":"Testing the Spirits","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses [that] Jesus Christ has come in [the] flesh is from God,","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the [spirit] of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and [which] is already in the world at this time.","f":["BYZ and TR that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh"]},{"v":4,"t":"You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who [is] in you than he who [is] in the world.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.","f":["Or spirit"]},{"v":7,"t":"Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.","f":[],"h":"Love Comes from God","style":"reg"},{"v":8,"t":"Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.","f":[]},{"v":9,"t":"This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.","f":["Or only begotten or unique"],"style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"[And] love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [as the] atoning sacrifice for our sins.","f":["Or as a propitiation"]},{"v":11,"t":"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"No one has ever seen God; [but] if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.","f":[]},{"v":14,"t":"And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent [His] Son [to be] [the] Savior of the world.","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"In this [way], love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.","f":[]},{"v":18,"t":"There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The [one who] fears has not been perfected in love.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"We love because He first loved us.","f":["BYZ and TR We love Him"]},{"v":20,"t":"If anyone says,“ I love God,” [but] hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":21,"t":"And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.","f":[]}]}