Godbey - I John - 4

4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

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

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

4:5  They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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

4:7  Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

4:8  The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

4:9  In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

4:10  In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

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

4:12  No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

4:13  In 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 we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world.

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

4:16  And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

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

4:18  There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love.

4:19  Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.

4:20  If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

4:21  And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.