Haweis - I John - 4

4:1  BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

4:2  By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.

4:3  And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

4:4  Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

4:5  They are of the world, therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

4:7  Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

4:8  He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

4:9  By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.

4:10  Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.

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

4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth 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 hath given us of his own Spirit.

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

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

4:16  And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

4:17  By this is his love towards us perfected, that we might have confidence at the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

4:18  Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

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

4:20  If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

4:21  So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.