1 John 4

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

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

2 Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

4 Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

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

5 They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

We are of God: the one knowing God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

8 He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

9 Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.

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

In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.

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

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

12 No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

13 Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his spirit.

14 And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world.

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

Whosoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, in him God abides, and he in God.

16 And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

17 Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.

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

18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

There is no fear in divine love; but perfect divine love casts out the fear: because the fear has torment; and the one fearing has not been made perfect in the divine love.

19 We love because he has first loved us.

Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.

20 If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.