1 John 3:24–4:16
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The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error
24Now fhe who keeps His commandments gabides in Him, and He in him. And hby this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
4Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but atest the spirits, whether they are of God; because bmany false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: cEvery spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3and every spirit that does not confess 1that Jesus 2Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than dhe who is in the world. 5eThey are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and fthe world hears them. 6We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. gBy this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7hBeloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who iloves is born of God and knows God. 8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9jIn this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten kSon into the world, that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, lnot that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son mto be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, nif God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12oNo one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13pBy this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14And qwe have seen and testify that rthe Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15sWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and the who abides in love abides in God, and God uin him.
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Cross references
- fJohn 14:23
- gJohn 14:21; 17:21
- hJohn 14:17; Rom. 8:9, 14, 16; 1 Thess. 4:8; 1 John 4:13
- a1 Cor. 14:29
- bMatt. 24:5
- c[Rom. 10:8–10]; 1 Cor. 12:3; 1 John 5:1
- dJohn 14:30; 16:11
- eJohn 3:31
- fJohn 15:19; 17:14
- g[1 Cor. 2:12–16]
- h1 John 3:10, 11, 23
- i1 Thess. 4:9; [1 John 3:14]
- jRom. 5:8
- kIs. 9:6, 7; John 3:16
- lTitus 3:5
- m1 John 2:2
- nMatt. 18:33
- oJohn 1:18; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 4:20
- pJohn 14:20
- qJohn 1:14
- rJohn 3:17; 4:42; 1 John 2:2
- s[Rom. 10:9]; 1 John 3:23; 4:2; 5:1, 5
- t[1 John 3:24]
- u[John 14:23]
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