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.
Ljubljeni, ne verjemite vsakemu duhu, temveč duhove preizkušajte, ali so od Boga, ker je mnogo lažnih prerokov odšlo v svet.
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.
S tem prepoznate Božjega Duha: »Vsak duh, ki priznava, da je Jezus Kristus prišel v mesu, je od Boga;
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!
in noben duh, ki ne priznava, da je Jezus Kristus prišel v mesu, ni od Boga; in to je ta duh antikrista, o katerem ste slišali, da naj bi prišel; in je celó že sedaj na svetu.«
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].
Vi ste od Boga, majhni otroci in ste jih premagali, ker je večji tisti, ki je v vas, kakor ta, ki je v svetu.
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.
Oni so od sveta; zaradi tega govorijo o svetu in svet jih posluša.
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].
Mi [pa] smo od Boga; kdor pozna Boga, nas posluša, kdor [pa] ni od Boga, nas ne posluša. S tem spoznamo duha resnice in duha zmote.
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.
Ljubljeni, ljubimo drug drugega, kajti ljubezen je od Boga, in vsak, kdor ljubi, je rojen iz Boga in pozna Boga.
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.
Kdor ne ljubi, ne pozna Boga, kajti Bog je ljubezen.
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].
V tem je bila do nas jasno pokazana Božja ljubezen, zato ker je ta Bog poslal svojega edinorojenega Sina v svet, da bi mi lahko živeli po njem.
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}.
V tem je ljubezen, ne da smo mi ljubili Boga, temveč, da nas je on ljubil in poslal svojega Sina, da postane spravna daritev za naše grehe.
11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
Ljubljeni, če nas je Bog tako ljubil, bi morali tudi mi ljubiti drug drugega.
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].
Noben človek nikoli ni videl Boga. Če ljubimo drug drugega, Bog prebiva v nas in je njegova ljubezen izpopolnjena v nas.
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.
S tem vemo, da prebivamo v njem in on v nas, ker nam je dal od svojega Duha.
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].
In videli smo in pričujemo, da je Oče poslal Sina, da bi bil Odrešenik sveta.
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.
Kdorkoli bo priznal, da je Jezus Božji Sin, Bog prebiva v njem in on v Bogu.
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.
In mi smo spoznali in verovali ljubezni, ki jo ima Bog do nas. Bog je ljubezen in kdor prebiva v ljubezni, prebiva v Bogu in Bog v njem.
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.
V tem se je naša ljubezen dovršila, da imamo lahko srčnost na dan sodbe; ker kakor je on, tako smo mi na tem svetu.
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.
V ljubezni ni nobenega strahu, temveč popolna ljubezen izganja strah; ker strah vsebuje muko. Kdor se boji, ni izpopolnjen v ljubezni.
19 We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
Mi ga ljubimo, ker je najprej on ljubil nas.
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.
Če človek reče: »Ljubim Boga, « pa sovraži svojega brata, je lažnivec; kajti kdor ne ljubi svojega brata, ki ga je videl, kako lahko ljubi Boga, ki ga ni videl?
21 Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
In od njega imamo to zapoved: »Da kdor ljubi Boga, ljubi tudi svojega brata.«
