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And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">God Is Love</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.</span></p><p><span class="text">God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>We love<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34877b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> because he first loved us. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34878c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34878d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34879e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> also.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 John 4:3">1 John 4:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>does away with Jesus</i> (Gk <i>dissolves Jesus</i>)</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 John 4:19">1 John 4:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>him</i>; others add <i>God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 John 4:20">1 John 4:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 John 4:20">1 John 4:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brother</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 John 4:21">1 John 4:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>brothers</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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