4Beloved, ^tdo not believe every spirit, but ^utest the spirits to see whether they are from God, for ^vmany ^wfalse prophets ^xhave gone out into the world. ²By this you know the Spirit of God: ^yevery spirit that confesses that ^zJesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³and every spirit ^athat does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and ^bnow is in the world already. ⁴Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for ^che who is in you is greater than ^dhe who is in the world. ⁵^eThey are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and ^fthe world listens to them. ⁶We are from God. ^gWhoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^hthe Spirit of truth and ⁱthe spirit of error.

God Is Love

⁷Beloved, ^jlet us love one another, for love is from God, and ^kwhoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸^lAnyone who does not love does not know God, because ^mGod is love. ⁹In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ⁿGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, ^onot that we have loved God ⁿbut that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^pthe propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²^qNo one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ^rhis love is perfected in us.

¹³^sBy this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴And ^twe have seen and testify that ^uthe Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of ^vthe world. ¹⁵^wWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶So ^xwe have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^yGod is love, and ^zwhoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Read in Logos

1 John 4:10: In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Footnotes

4Greek him
5Greek he

Cross references

r[John 6:56; 14:20; 15:4, 5; 17:21]
sch. 4:13; Rom. 8:9
t Jer. 29:8
u 1 Thess. 5:21; [1 Cor. 12:10; 14:29; Rev. 2:2]
vSee ch. 2:18
w 2 Pet. 2:1
x 2 John 7
y[1 Cor. 12:3]
z 2 John 7
ach. 2:22; 2 John 7
bch. 2:18; [2 Thess. 2:3–7]
cSee Rom. 8:31
d[1 Cor. 2:12]; See John 12:31
e John 3:31; 8:23
f John 15:19
g[John 8:47; 10:16; 18:37; 1 Cor. 14:37]
h John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13
i[1 Cor. 2:12; 1 Tim. 4:1]
jch. 3:11
kch. 2:29
lch. 3:10
mver. 16; 2 Cor. 13:11; [ch. 1:5; John 4:24]
nSee John 3:16
o Rom. 5:8, 10
n[See ver. 9 above]
pSee ch. 2:2
qver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Tim. 6:16
rch. 2:5
sch. 3:24
tch. 1:1, 2
uSee John 3:17
vSee ch. 2:2
wch. 5:5; [Rom. 10:9]; See Matt. 14:33
x John 6:69
ySee ver. 8
zver. 12; ch. 3:24