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title: 1 John 4
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createdAt: 2024-09-11T01:07:11.222Z
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**1 **Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. **2 **Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: **3 **And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that *spirit* of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. **4 **Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. **5 **They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. **6 **We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

**7 **Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. **8 **He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. **9 **In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. **10 **Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son *to be* the propitiation for our sins. **11 **Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. **12 **No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. **13 **Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. **14 **And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son *to be* the Saviour of the world.

**15 **Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. **16 **And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. **17 **Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. **18 **There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. **19 **We love him, because he first loved us. **20 **If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? **21 **And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.