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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_john/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Discerning False Prophets</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.</p><p class="hdg">Loving One Another</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.</p><p class="reg">God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We love each other<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> because he loved us first.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">If a spirit;</span><span class="ft"> similarly in 4:3.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">We love.</span><span class="ft"> Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">We love God;</span><span class="ft"> still others read </span><span class="it">We love him.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:20 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">hates his brother.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:21 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">The one who loves God must also love his brother.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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