The Concordant Literal New Testament

First Epistle Of John

Chapter 4

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.
² In this you know the spirit of God: every spirit which is avowing Jesus Christ, having come in flesh, is of God,
³ and every spirit which is not avowing Jesus the Lord having come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and is now already in the world.
⁴ You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them, for greater is He Who is in you than he who is in the world.
⁵ They are of the world; therefore they are speaking of the world, and the world is hearing them.
⁶ We are of God. He who knows God is hearing us. He who is not of God is not hearing us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
⁷ Beloved, we should be loving one another, for love is of God, and everyone who is loving God is begotten of God, and knows God.
⁸ He who is not loving knew not God, for God is love.
⁹ In this was manifested the love of God among us, that God has dispatched His only-begotten Son into the world that we should be living through Him.
¹⁰ In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loves us, and dispatches His son, a propitiatory shelter concerned with our sins.
¹¹ Beloved, if thus God loves us, we also ought to be loving one another.
¹² No one has ever gazed upon God. If we should be loving one anohter, God is remaining in us, and His love is perfected in us.
¹³ In this we know that we are remaining in Him, and He in us, for He has given us of His spirit.
¹⁴ And we have gazed upon Him, and are testifying that the Father has dispatched the Son, the Saviour of the world.
¹⁵ Whoever should be avowing that Jesus is the Son of God, God is remaining in him, and he in God.
¹⁶ And we know and believe the love which God has in us. God is love, and he who is remaining in love is remaining in God, and God is remaining in him.
¹⁷ In this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judging, seeing that, according as He is, so are we also in this world.
¹⁸ Fear is not in love, but perfect love is casting out fear, for fear has chastening. Now he who is fearing is not perfected in love.
¹⁹ We are loving God, for He first loves us.
²⁰ If anyone should be saying that "I am loving God," and should be hating his brother, he is a liar; for he who is not loving his brother whom he has seen can not be loving God Whom he has not seen.
²¹ And this precept have we from Him, that he who is loving God may be loving his brother also.

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