LITV - I John - 4

4:1  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

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

4:3  And every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God; and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

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

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

4:6  We are of God; the one knowing God hears us. Whoever 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, because love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

4:8  The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love.

4:9  By this the love of God was revealed in us, because His Son, the Only begotten, God has sent 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 a propitiation relating to our sins.

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

4:12  No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love having been perfected is in us.

4:13  By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given to us.

4:14  And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

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

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

4:17  By this love has been perfected with us, that we have confidence in the day of judgment, that as He is, we are also in this world.

4:18  There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and the one fearing has not been perfected in love.

4:19  We love Him because He first loved us.

4:20  If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen?

4:21  And we have this commandment from Him, that the one who loves God also loves his brother.