New Testament · Letters
1 John chapter 4
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Friends, don’t believe every out there. Instead, test them to see if they’re really from God, because a lot of have gone out into the world.Here’s how you can recognize : every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus — that’s from God.But every spirit that doesn’t acknowledge Jesus like that? That’s not from God. That’s the spirit of the — the one you’ve heard is coming. And it’s already here in the world right now.But you, dear ones — you belong to God, and you’ve already these fake teachers. Because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in .These false teachers belong to . That’s why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.We belong to God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who doesn’t belong to God doesn’t listen to us. That’s how we can tell the difference between the and the spirit of .Friends, let’s each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been and knows God.Anyone who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because — that’s his very nature.Here’s how God’s love showed up in our lives: God sent his Son into the world so that we could have through him.This is what real looks like — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as the for our .Friends, if God us that much, we should love each other too.No one has ever seen God with their own eyes. But if we love each other, God and his love in us.Here’s how we know we live in him and he lives in us: he has given us a share of .And we’ve and can tell you: the Father sent the Son to the world.If anyone that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in that person and that person lives in God.And so we’ve come to and the love God has for us. God is love, and anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them.This is how love reaches its full expression among us: so that we can face the with . Because in this world, we are living the same kind of life he lives.There is no in love. Instead, love that has reached its full expression , because fear has to do with . Anyone still living in fear hasn’t yet experienced love in its fullness. because he loved us first.If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a , they’re a . Because if you can’t love someone you can see, how can you possibly love a God you can’t see?And this is the we have from him: anyone who loves God must also love their .