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.

Mine kjære! tru ikkje på kvar ei ånd, men prøv ånderne, um dei er av Gud! for det er mange falske profetar gjengne ut i verdi.

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.

På det kjenner de Guds Ande: kvar ei ånd som sannar at Jesus Kristus er komen i kjøt, er av Gud;

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!

og kvar ei ånd som ikkje sannar at Jesus Kristus er komen i kjøt, er ikkje av Gud; og dette er åndi til Antikrist, som de hev høyrt um at ho kjem, og ho er alt no i verdi.

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].

Born, de er av Gud og hev sigra yver deim; for han som er i dykk, er større enn han som er i verdi.

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.

Dei er av verdi; difor talar dei av verdi, og verdi høyrer deim.

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].

Me er av Gud; den som kjenner Gud, høyrer oss; den som ikkje er av Gud, høyrer oss ikkje. På dette kjenner me sannings-åndi og villfarings-åndi.

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.

Mine kjære, lat oss elska kvarandre! for kjærleiken er av Gud, og kvar den som elskar, er fødd av Gud og kjenner Gud.

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.

Den som ikkje elskar, kjenner ikkje Gud; for Gud er kjærleik.

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].

I det er Guds kjærleik openberra millom oss, at Gud hev sendt son sin, den einborne, til verdi, so me skal liva ved honom.

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}.

I dette er kjærleiken, ikkje at me hev elska Gud, men at han hev elska oss og sendt son sin til soning for synderne våre.

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

Mine kjære! hev Gud elska oss soleis, so er me og skuldige til å elska kvarandre.

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].

Ingen hev noko sinn set Gud; elskar me kvarandre, so vert Gud verande i oss, og kjærleiken til honom hev vorte fullkomen i oss.

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.

På dette kjenner me at me er i honom og han i oss, at han hev gjeve oss av sin Ande.

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].

Og me hev set og vitnar at Faderen hev sendt son sin til frelsar for verdi.

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.

Den som sannar at Jesus er Guds Son, i honom vert Gud verande, og han i Gud.

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.

Og me hev lært å kjenna og trutt på den kjærleiken Gud hev til oss. Gud er kjærleik, og den som vert verande i kjærleiken, vert verande i Gud, og Gud i honom.

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.

I dette hev kjærleiken vorte fullkomen hjå oss, at me hev fritt mod på domedag; for liksom han er, so er me og i denne verdi.

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.

Otte er ikkje i kjærleiken, men den fullkomne kjærleiken driv otten ut; for otten hev straffi i seg; men den som ottast, er ikkje fullkomen i kjærleiken.

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

Me elskar av di han elska oss fyrst.

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.

Dersom nokon segjer: «Eg elskar Gud», og han hatar bror sin, han er ein ljugar; for den som ikkje elskar bror sin som han hev set, kor kann han elska Gud, som han ikkje hev set?

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

Og dette bodet hev me frå honom, at den som elskar Gud, han skal og elska bror sin.