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.