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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 John 4 BLB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_john/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//1_john/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</a> > 1 John 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/1_john/4.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/3.htm" title="1 John 3">◄</a> 1 John 4 <a href="../1_john/5.htm" title="1 John 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Testing the Spirits</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in <i>the</i> flesh is of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and every spirit that does not confess Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="BYZ and TR ‘that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh’">a</a></span> is not of God, and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that is coming, and now is already in the world. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because the <i>One</i> in you is greater than the <i>one</i> in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are of the world; because of this they speak from out of the world, and the world listens to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We are of God. The <i>one</i> knowing God listens to us. He who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Or ‘spirit’">b</a></span> of truth and the spirit of falsehood. </p><p class="hdg">Love Comes from God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Beloved, we should love one another, because love is from God; and everyone loving has been born from God and knows God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <i>one</i> not loving has not known God, because God is love. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In this the love of God has been revealed among us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son <i>as</i> a propitiation for our sins. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>No one has seen God at any time; if we should love one another, God abides in us, and His love is having been perfected in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us: because He has given to us from out of His Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son <i>as</i> Savior of the world. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And we have come to know and have come to believe the love that God has as to us. God is love, and the <i>one</i> abiding in love abides in God, and God abides in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In this, love has been perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment that, just as He is, also are we in this world. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and the <i>one</i> fearing has not been perfected in love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We love because He first loved us. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If anyone should say, “I love God,” and should hate his brother, he is a liar. For the <i>one</i> not loving his brother, whom he has seen, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And this commandment we have from Him, that the <i>one</i> loving God should love his brother also.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnote">BYZ and TR <i>that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh</i></span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnote">Or <i>spirit</i></span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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