1 John 4

¹My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

²By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

³And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

⁴You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁵They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

⁶We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

⁷My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

⁸He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

⁹And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

¹⁰And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

¹¹My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us: