1 Beloved ones, not every spirit do you believe, but do you prove the spirits, if from of the God is; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the spirit of the God; every spirit which confesses Jesus Anointed in flesh having come, from of the God is.
3 And every spirit who not confesses the Jesus, from the God not is; and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and now in the world is already.
4 You of the God are, dear children, and have overcome them; because greater is he in you, than he in the world.
5 They from the world are; on account of this of the world they speak, and the world them hears.
6 We of the God are; the one knowing the God, hear us; who not is of the God, not hears us. By this we know the spirit of the truth and the spirit of the error.
7 Beloved ones, we should love each other; because the love of the God is, and every one the loving, by the God has been begotten, and knows the God;
8 he not loving, not knew the God, because the God love is.
9 in this was manifested the love of the God in us, because the son of himself the onlybegotten sent forth the God into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is the love, not that we loved the God, but that he loved us, and sent forth the son of himself a propitiation respecting the sins of us.
11 Beloved ones, if thus the God loved us, also we ought each other to love. God no one at any time has seen.
12 If we love each other, the God in us abides, and the love of him having been perfected it is in us.
13 By this we know, that in him we abide, and he in us, because out of the spirit of himself he has given us.
14 And we have seen and we testify, that the Father sent forth the son a savior of the world.
15 Whoever may confess, that Jesus is the son of the God, the God in him abides, and he in the God.
16 And we have known and we have believed the love, which has the God in us. The God love is, and the one abiding in the love, in the God abides, and the God in him.
17 By this has been perfected the love with us, so that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because as he is, also we are in the world this.
18 Fear not is in the love, but the perfect love outside casts the fear; because the fear a restraint has; the but one fearing not has been perfected in the love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If any one may say: That I love the God, and the brother of himself he may hate, a liar he is; the for not one loving the brother of himself, whom he has seen, the God, whom not he has seen, how is he able to love?
21 And this the commandment we have from him, that the one loving the God should love also the brother of himself.
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.
3 Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.
4 You are of God, my little children. You have overcome them because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
5 They are from the world. They speak that which is from the world and the world listens to them.
6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle spirit of truth, and the principle spirit of deception error.
7 Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God for God is love.
9 The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation atonementsacrificial payment for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time! If we love one another, God lives with us, and his love is perfected accomplishedmatured through us.
13 We know that we live with him and he with us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 We see and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives with him, and he with God.
16 We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him.
17 This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid exposed to this world.
18 There is no fear in love. Perfect mature love throws out expels fear because fear involves restraint punishment. He who fears is not made perfect maturecomplete through love.
19 We love, because he first loved us.
20 If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.