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.
Љубазни! Не верујте сваком духу, него кушајте духове јесу ли од Бога; јер многи лажни пророци изиђоше на свет.
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.
По овом познајте Духа Божијег, и духа лажног; сваки дух који признаје да је Исус Христос у телу дошао, од Бога је;
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!
А сваки дух који не признаје да је Исус Христос у телу дошао, није од Бога: и овај је антихристов, за ког чусте да ће доћи, и сад је већ на свету.
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].
Ви сте од Бога, дечице, и надвладасте их, јер је већи који је у вама неголи који је на свету.
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.
Они су од света, зато говоре од света, и свет их слуша.
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].
Ми смо од Бога; који познаје Бога слуша нас, а који није од Бога не слуша нас. По овом познајемо духа истине и духа преваре.
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.
Љубазни! Да љубимо један другог; јер је љубав од Бога, и сваки који има љубав од Бога је рођен, и познаје Бога.
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.
А који нема љубави не позна Бога; јер је Бог љубав.
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].
По том се показа љубав Божија к нама што Бог Сина свог Јединородног посла на свет да живимо кроза Њ.
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}.
У овом је љубав не да ми показасмо љубав к Богу, него да Он показа љубав к нама, и посла Сина свог да очисти грехе наше.
11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
Љубазни! Кад је овако Бог показао љубав к нама, и ми смо дужни љубити један другог.
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].
Бога нико не виде никад: ако имамо љубав међу собом, Бог у нама стоји, и љубав је Његова савршена у нама.
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.
По том дознајемо да у Њему стојимо, и Он у нама, што нам је дао од Духа свог.
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].
И ми видесмо и сведочимо да Отац посла Сина да се спасе свет.
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.
Који призна да је Исус Син Божји, Бог у њему стоји и он у Богу.
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.
И ми познасмо и веровасмо љубав коју Бог има к нама. Бог је љубав, и који стоји у љубави, у Богу стоји и Бог у њему стоји.
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.
Тим се љубав у нама савршује да имамо слободу на дан судни; јер као што је Он и ми смо на свету овом.
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.
У љубави нема страха, него савршена љубав изгони страх напоље; јер страх има муку. А ко се боји није савршен у љубави.
19 We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
Да имамо ми љубав к Њему, јер Он најпре показа љубав к нама.
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.
Ако ко рече: Ја љубим Бога, а мрзи на брата свог, лажа је; јер који не љуби брата свог, кога види, како може љубити Бога, кога не види?
21 Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
И ову заповест имамо од Њега: Који љуби Бога да љуби и брата свог.
