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1 John 4

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1 John 4 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

ASV: 1ASV

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

WEB: 2WEB

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

ASV: 2ASV

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

WEB: 3WEB

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

ASV: 3ASV

and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.

WEB: 4WEB

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

ASV: 4ASV

Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

WEB: 5WEB

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

ASV: 5ASV

They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.

WEB: 6WEB

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

ASV: 6ASV

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

WEB: 7WEB

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

ASV: 7ASV

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

WEB: 8WEB

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

ASV: 8ASV

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

WEB: 9WEB

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.

ASV: 9ASV

Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

WEB: 10WEB

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

ASV: 10ASV

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

WEB: 11WEB

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

ASV: 11ASV

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

WEB: 12WEB

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

ASV: 12ASV

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

WEB: 13WEB

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

ASV: 13ASV

hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

WEB: 14WEB

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

ASV: 14ASV

And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

WEB: 15WEB

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

ASV: 15ASV

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

WEB: 16WEB

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

ASV: 16ASV

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

WEB: 17WEB

In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

ASV: 17ASV

Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

WEB: 18WEB

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

ASV: 18ASV

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

WEB: 19WEB

We love him, because he first loved us.

ASV: 19ASV

We love, because he first loved us.

WEB: 20WEB

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

ASV: 20ASV

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

WEB: 21WEB

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

ASV: 21ASV

And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.