LO - I John - 4

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

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

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

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

4:5  They are of the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world hearkens to them.

4:6  We are of God: he who know God, hearkens to us; he who is not of God, hearkens not to 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 from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God.

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

4:9  By this the love of God was manifested to us, that God sent forth his Son, the only begotten, 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 forth his Son to be a propitiation for 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 is made perfect 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  Now we have seen, and bear testimony, that the Father has sent forth his Son, to be the Saviour of the world.

4:15  Whoever will 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 which God has in us. God is love; wherefore, he who abides in love, abides in God, and God in him.

4:17  By this, the love has been perfected in us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment: therefore, he who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

4:20  If any one say, Indeed I love God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar: for he who loves not his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?

4:21  Moreover, this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God, loves his brother, also.