1 John 4

1 Dear friends, many people [who have a false message] are teaching it to people [MTY]. So do not trust every [message that someone claims/says that God’s] Spirit [MTY] [gave to him]. Instead, (test/think carefully about) the teachings that [you hear] in order to know whether they are from God or not.

Bien-aimés, ne croyez pas à tout esprit; mais examinez les esprits pour voir s'ils sont de Dieu, car beaucoup de faux prophètes ont fait irruption dans le monde.

2 [I will tell] you how to recognize [teachings that come from] the Spirit of God: Those who affirm/say that Jesus Christ came [from God] to become a human [like us] are [teaching a message] that is from God.

Voici à quoi vous reconnaissez l'Esprit de Dieu: tout esprit qui confesse que Jésus-Christ est venu en chair est de Dieu;

3 But those who do not affirm/say [that about] Jesus are not [teaching a message] from God. [They are teachers who] oppose Christ. You have heard that people like that are coming [to be among us]. Even now they are already here!

et tout esprit qui ne confesse pas Jésus n'est pas de Dieu, et tel est celui de l'antechrist, dont vous avez ouï dire qu'il doit venir, et maintenant il est déjà dans le monde.

4 As for you who are very dear to me, you belong to God, and you have refused [the false messages] that those people [teach], because [God], who enables you [to do what he wants], is (greater/more powerful) than ([Satan/the devil]), who enables (godless people/people who conduct their lives in a way that displeases God) [MTY].

Pour vous, petits enfants, vous êtes de Dieu, et vous les avez vaincus, parce que Celui qui est en vous est plus grand que celui qui est dans le monde.

5 As for [those who are teaching what is false], they are (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY]. Because of that, they teach what (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY] want to hear. That is why the (godless people/people whose lives displease God) [MTY] listen to them.

Pour eux, ils sont du monde; c'est pourquoi ils parlent d'après le monde, et le monde les écoute.

6 As for us [(exc)], [because] we belong to God, whoever (knows/has a close relationship with) God listens to us. [But] those who do not belong to God do not listen to us. That is how we can know whether [the things that people are teaching] [MTY] are true or whether they are false, and deceiving [people].

Pour nous, nous sommes de Dieu; celui qui connaît Dieu nous écoute; celui qui n'est pas de Dieu ne nous écoute point: c'est à cela que nous reconnaissons l'esprit de vérité et l'esprit d'égarement.

7 Dear friends, we must love each other, because God [enables us] to love [each other], and because those who love [their fellow believers] have become God’s children and (know/have a close relationship with) him.

Bien-aimés, aimons-nous les uns les autres, parce que l'amour vient de Dieu, et quiconque aime est né de Dieu et connaît Dieu;

8 God’s [nature] is to love [all people]. So those who do not love [their fellow believers] do not (know/have a relationship with) God.

« celui qui n'aime pas n'a pas connu Dieu, car Dieu est amour.

9 I will tell you how God has shown us [that he] loves us: He sent (his only Son/the only one who was also God) [to live] on the earth to enable us to live [eternally] as a result of [our trusting in what] he [accomplished for us by dying for us].

Voici comment l'amour de Dieu a été manifesté envers nous: c'est que Dieu a envoyé Son fils unique dans le monde, afin que nous vivions par lui.

10 [And God] has shown [us what it means to] love [another person]: [It does] not [mean] that we loved God, but [it means] that God loved us and sent (his Son/the one who was also God) to sacrifice [his life] in order that [our sins might be forgiven] {[he might forgive] our sins}.

Voici en quoi consiste cet amour: c'est que ce n'est pas nous qui avons aimé Dieu, mais que c'est Lui qui nous a aimés et qui a envoyé son fils comme victime expiatoire pour nos péchés.

11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!

Bien-aimés, si Dieu nous a ainsi aimés, nous aussi nous devons nous aimer les uns les autres.

12 No one has ever seen God. [Nevertheless], if we love each other, [it is evident that] God lives within us and that we love others just like he [intends/wants us to do].

Personne n'a jamais contemplé Dieu; si nous nous aimons les uns les autres, Dieu demeure en nous et Son amour est accompli en nous.

13 [I will tell you] how we can be sure that we have a close relationship with God and that God is within us: He has put his Spirit within us.

Voici à quoi nous connaissons que nous demeurons en Lui et Lui en nous: c'est qu'il nous a donné de Son Esprit.

14 We [apostles] have seen (God’s Son/the one who is also God), and [we tell people] that the Father sent him to save [the people in] the world [MTY] [from being punished for their sins].

Et nous-mêmes nous avons vu, et nous l'attestons, que le Père a envoyé Son fils comme sauveur du monde.

15 [So] those who affirm/say that Jesus is the (Son of/one who is also) God, God is within them, and they have a close relationship with God.

Quiconque aura confessé que Jésus-Christ est le fils de Dieu, Dieu demeure en lui, et lui en Dieu.

16 We have experienced how God loves us and we believe that he loves us. [As a result, we love others. Because] God’s [nature] is to love people, those who continue to love [others] have a close relationship with God, and God has a close relationship with them.

Et nous-mêmes nous avons connu l'amour que Dieu a pour nous et nous y avons cru; Dieu est amour, et celui qui demeure dans l'amour demeure en Dieu, et Dieu demeure en lui. Voici comment l'amour est accompli en nous, afin que nous ayons une ferme assurance lors du jour du jugement:

17 We [should] love others completely. And if we do that, when the time comes for [him to] judge us, we will be confident [that he will not condemn us] (OR, [that we have a close relationship with him]). [We will be confident of that] because of our [conducting our lives] in this world as Christ did.

c'est que tel qu'est celui-là, tels nous sommes aussi dans ce monde.

18 We will not be afraid [of God] if we [truly] love [him], because those who love [God] completely cannot possibly be afraid [of him]. [We would be] afraid only [if we thought that he would] punish us. So those who are afraid [of God certainly] are not loving [God] completely.

Il n'y a pas de crainte dans l'amour, mais l'amour accompli chasse la crainte; car la crainte suppose le châtiment, et celui qui craint n'est pas accompli dans l'amour.

19 We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.

Pour nous, nous devons aimer, parce qu'il nous a aimés le premier.

20 [So] those who say “I love God” but hate a fellow believer are lying. Those who do not love one of their fellow believers, whom they have seen, certainly cannot be loving God, whom they have not seen.

Si quelqu'un dit: J'aime Dieu, et qu'il haïsse son frère, c'est un menteur; car celui qui n'aime pas son frère qu'il voit, ne peut pas aimer Dieu qu'il ne voit pas.

21 Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.

Et voici le commandement que nous tenons de Lui: c'est que celui qui aime Dieu aime aussi son frère.