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1 John 3:24–4:16

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24The one who keeps God’s commandsp lives in him,q and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.r

On Denying the Incarnation

4Dear friends,s do not believe every spirit,t but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.u 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the fleshv is from God,w 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,x which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.y

4You, dear children,z are from God and have overcome them,a because the one who is in youb is greater than the one who is in the world.c 5They are from the worldd and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.e This is how we recognize the Spirita of truthf and the spirit of falsehood.g

God’s Love and Ours

7Dear friends, let us love one another,h for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of Godi and knows God.j 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.k 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Sonl into the world that we might live through him.m 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved usn and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.o 11Dear friends,p since God so loved us,q we also ought to love one another.r 12No one has ever seen God;s but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.t

13This is how we knowu that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.v 14And we have seen and testifyw that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.x 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,y God lives in them and they in God.z 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.a Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.b

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. aOr spirit

Cross references

  1. p1 Jn 2:3
  2. q1 Jn 2:6; 4:15
  3. r1 Th 4:8; 1 Jn 4:13
  4. sSee 1 Co 10:14
  5. tJer 29:8; 1 Co 12:10; 2 Th 2:2
  6. uSee Mt 7:15; 1 Jn 2:18
  7. vSee Jn 1:14; 1 Jn 2:23
  8. w1 Co 12:3
  9. x1 Jn 2:22; 2 Jn 7
  10. y1 Jn 2:18
  11. zSee 1 Jn 2:1
  12. aSee Jn 16:33
  13. bRo 8:31
  14. c2 Ki 6:16; See Jn 12:31
  15. dJn 15:19; 17:14, 16
  16. eJn 8:47
  17. fSee Jn 14:17
  18. gSee Mk 13:5
  19. hSee 1 Jn 3:11
  20. iSee Jn 1:13
  21. jSee 1 Jn 2:4
  22. kver 7, 16
  23. lJn 1:18
  24. mJn 3:16, 17; 1 Jn 5:11
  25. nRo 5:8, 10
  26. oSee Ro 3:25
  27. pSee 1 Co 10:14
  28. qSee Jn 3:16
  29. rJn 15:12; See 1 Jn 3:11
  30. sSee Jn 1:18
  31. tver 17; 1 Jn 2:5
  32. uSee 1 Jn 2:3
  33. v1 Jn 3:24
  34. wSee Jn 15:27
  35. xSee Lk 2:11; See Jn 3:17
  36. ySee 1 Jn 2:23; 5:5
  37. z1 Jn 3:24
  38. aver 8
  39. bver 12, 13; 1 Jn 3:24

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