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1 John 4

Testing the Spirits

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 aBeloved, do not believe every  bspirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because  cmany false prophets have gone out into the world.

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By this you know the Spirit of God:  aevery spirit that  bconfesses that  cJesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

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and every spirit that  adoes not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the  bantichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and  cnow it is already in the world.

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You are from God,  alittle children, and  bhave overcome them; because  cgreater is He who is in you than  dhe who is in the world.

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 aThey are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

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 aWe are from God;  bhe who knows God listens to us;  che who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know  dthe spirit of truth and  ethe spirit of error.

God Is Love

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 aBeloved, let us  blove one another, for love is from God; and  ceveryone who loves is  1 dborn of God and  eknows God.

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The one who does not love does not know God, for  aGod is love.

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By this the love of God was manifested  1 ain us, that  bGod has sent His  2only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

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In this is love,  anot that we loved God, but that  bHe loved us and sent His Son to be  cthe propitiation for our sins.

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 aBeloved, if God so loved us,  bwe also ought to love one another.

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 aNo one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His  blove is perfected in us.

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 aBy this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

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We have seen and  atestify that the Father has  bsent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

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 aWhoever confesses that  bJesus is the Son of God, God  cabides in him, and he in God.

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 aWe have come to know and have believed the love which God has  1 bfor us.  cGod is love, and the one who  dabides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

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By this,  alove is perfected with us, so that we may have  bconfidence in  cthe day of judgment; because  das He is, so also are we in this world.

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There is no fear in love; but  aperfect love casts out fear, because fear  1involves punishment, and the one who fears is not  bperfected in love.

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 aWe love, because He first loved us.

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 aIf someone says, "I love God," and  bhates his brother, he is a  cliar; for  dthe one who does not love his brother whom he has seen,  ecannot love God whom he has not seen.

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And  athis commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God  bshould love his brother also.



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