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1 John 3:24–4:16

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24And the one who akeeps His commandments babides in Him, and He in him. cWe know by this that dHe abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us.

CHAPTER 4

Test the Spirits

1aBeloved, do not believe every bspirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because cmany false prophets have gone out into the world.

2By this you know the Spirit of God: aevery spirit that bconfesses that cJesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

3and every spirit that adoes not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the bantichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and cnow it is already in the world.

4You are from God, alittle children, and bhave overcome them; because cgreater is He who is in you than dhe who is in the world.

5aThey are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world hears them.

6aWe are from God. bThe one who knows God hears us; cthe one who is not from God does not hear us. From this we know dthe spirit of truth and ethe spirit of error.

God Is Love

7aBeloved, let us blove one another, for love is from God; and ceveryone who loves has been 1dborn of God and eknows God.

8The one who does not love does not know God, because aGod is love.

9By this the love of God was manifested 1ain us, that bGod has sent His 2only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

10In this is love, anot that we have loved God, but that bHe loved us and sent His Son to be cthe propitiation for our sins.

11aBeloved, if God so loved us, bwe also ought to love one another.

12aNo one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His blove is perfected in us.

13aBy this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14We have beheld and abear witness that the Father has bsent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

15aWhoever confesses that bJesus is the Son of God, God cabides in him, and he in God.

16aAnd we have come to know and have believed the love which God has bin us. cGod is love, and the one who dabides 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

  1. 1Or begotten
  2. 1Or in our case
  3. 2Or unique, only one of His kind

Cross references

  1. a1 John 2:3
  2. bJohn 6:56; 10:38; 1 John 2:6, 24; 4:15
  3. cJohn 14:17; Rom 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess 4:8; 1 John 4:13
  4. d1 John 2:5
  5. a3 John 11
  6. bJer 29:8; 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Thess 5:20f; 2 Thess 2:2
  7. cJer 14:14; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 John 2:18
  8. a1 Cor 12:3
  9. b1 John 2:23
  10. cJohn 1:14; 1 John 1:2
  11. a1 John 2:22; 2 John 7
  12. b1 John 2:18, 22
  13. c2 Thess 2:3–7; 1 John 2:18
  14. a1 John 2:1
  15. b1 John 2:13
  16. cRom 8:31; 1 John 3:20
  17. dJohn 12:31
  18. aJohn 15:19; 17:14, 16
  19. aJohn 8:23; 1 John 4:4
  20. bJohn 8:47; 10:3ff; 18:37
  21. c1 Cor 14:37
  22. dJohn 14:17
  23. e1 Tim 4:1
  24. a1 John 2:7
  25. b1 John 3:11
  26. c1 John 5:1
  27. d1 John 2:29
  28. e1 Cor 8:3; 1 John 2:3
  29. a1 John 4:7, 16
  30. aJohn 9:3; 1 John 4:16
  31. bJohn 3:16f; 1 John 4:10; 5:11
  32. aRom 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19
  33. bJohn 3:16f; 1 John 4:9; 5:11
  34. c1 John 2:2
  35. a1 John 2:7
  36. b1 John 4:7
  37. aJohn 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; 1 John 4:20
  38. b1 John 2:5; 4:17f
  39. aRom 8:9; 1 John 3:24
  40. aJohn 15:27; 1 John 1:2
  41. bJohn 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2
  42. a1 John 2:23
  43. bRom 10:9; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5
  44. c1 John 2:24; 3:24
  45. aJohn 6:69
  46. bJohn 9:3; 1 John 4:9
  47. c1 John 4:7, 8
  48. d1 John 4:12f

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