KJ3 Literal Translation
1 John 4
He warns them not to believe all teachers, who boast of the Spirit, but to try them.
1Beloved ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.
3And 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.
4Little children, you are of God and have overcome them, because the One in you is greater than the one in the world.
5They are of the world; because of this, as from the world they speak, and the world hears them.
6We are of God; the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7Beloved ones, let us love one another, because love is from God, and every one who loves has been generated from God, and knows God.
8The one not loving did not know God, because God is love.
9By 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.
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation concerning our sins.
11Beloved ones, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12No one ever has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love being perfected is in us.
13By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given to us.
14And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16And 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.
17By 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.
18There 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.
19We love Him because He first loved us.
20If 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?
21And we have this commandment from Him, that the one who loves God also loves his brother.
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