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Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.</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>Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is love indeed—we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dear friends, if God has 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 ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God—God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>We love because God first loved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_john/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 John 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 John 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_john/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 John 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 John 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/1_john/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>