RKJNT - I John - 4

4:1  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

4:2  By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

4:3  And every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not of God: this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming; and now is already in the world.

4:4  You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he who is in you, than he who is in the world.

4:5  They are of the world: therefore what they speak is of the world, and the world hears them.

4:6  We are of God: he who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God, and every one who loves is born of God, and knows God.

4:8  He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

4:9  In this was the love of God revealed among us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

4:10  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

4:11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

4:12  No man has seen God at any time, but if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

4:13  By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

4:14  And we have seen and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

4:15  Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

4:17  In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so we are in this world.

4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has to do with punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

4:19  We love, because he first loved us.

4:20  If a man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

4:21  And this commandment we have from him, That he who loves God must also love his brother.