ABP - I John - 4

4:1  Beloved, [2not 3every 4spirit 1believe], but distinguish the spirits, if [2of 3God 1they are]! for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

4:2  By this you know the spirit of God -- every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ [2in 3flesh 1having come 5of 6God 4is].

4:3  And every spirit which does not acknowledge Jesus Christ [2in 3flesh 1having come 5of 6God 4is not]. And this is the thing of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and [2now 3in 4the 5world 1is] already.

4:4  You [2of 3God 1are], sons, and have overcome them; for greater is the one in you, than the one in the world.

4:5  They [2of 3the 4world 1are]; because of this [2of 3the 4world 1they speak], and the world hears them.

4:6  We [2of 3God 1are]; the one knowing God, hears us; the one who is not of God, does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of the truth and the spirit of the delusion.

4:7  Beloved, we should love one another, for love [2of 3God 1is]; and every one loving [2of 3God 1is engendered], and knows God.

4:8  The one not loving does not know God, for God is love.

4:9  In this was made manifest the love of God in us, that his son, the only born, God sent into the world, that we should live through him.

4:10  In this is the love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son as an atonement for our sins.

4:11  Beloved, if thus God loved us, also we ought [2one another 1to love].

4:12  [3God 1No one 4at any time 2has seen]. If we should love one another, God [2in 3us 1abides], and his love has been perfected in us.

4:13  By this we know that in him we abide, and he in us -- that of the spirit of him he has given to us.

4:14  And we have seen, and we bear witness that the father has sent the son as deliverer of the world.

4:15  Who ever should acknowledge that Jesus is the son of God, God [2in 3him 1abides], and he in God.

4:16  And we have known and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and the one abiding in the love, [2in 3God 1abides], and God in him.

4:17  In this [3has been perfected 1the 2love] with us, that [2confidence 1we should have] in the day of the judgment; for as that one is, also we are in this world.

4:18  Fear is not in the love, but the perfect love [3outside 1casts 2fear]; for fear [2punishment 1holds], and the one fearing has not been made perfect in love.

4:19  We love him, for he first loved us.

4:20  If anyone should say that, I love God, and [2his brother 1should detest], he is a liar. For the one not loving his brother, whom he has seen, [4God 5whom 6he has not 7seen 1how 2is he able 3to love]?

4:21  And this commandment we have from him, that the one loving God, should love also his brother.