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1 John 4 NASB 1977
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By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. <p><b><i>God Is Love</i></b><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/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>to be</i> the propitiation for our sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/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="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/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 us of His Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son <i>to be</i> the Savior of the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We love, because He first loved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/1_john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.</div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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