1 John 4

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

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

2 In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,

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

3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is not of God; and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

and every spirit which 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.

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

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.

5 They are of the world, because they speak of this from the world, and the world hears them;

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

6 we are of God; he who is 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.

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.

7 Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;

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

8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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

9 In this was revealed the love of God in us, because God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him;

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.

10 in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.

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

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

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

12 no one has ever seen God; if we may love one another, God remains in us, and His love is having been perfected in us;

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

13 in this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given us.

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

14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world;

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

15 whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God;

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

16 and we have known and believed the love that God has in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in love, remains in God, and God in him.

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.

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

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.

18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and he who is fearing has not been made perfect in love;

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.

19 we love Him, because He first loved us;

We love, because he first loved us.

20 if anyone may say, “I love God,” and may hate his brother, he is a liar; for he who is not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen?

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.

21 And this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

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