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.
Carísimos, no creáis a todo espíritu, sino poned a prueba los espíritus si son de Dios; porque muchos falsos profetas han salido al mundo.
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.
Conoced el Espíritu de Dios en esto: todo espíritu que confiesa que Jesucristo ha venido en carne, es de Dios;
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!
y todo espíritu que no confiesa a Jesús, no es de Dios, sino que es el espíritu del Anticristo. Habéis oído que viene ese espíritu, y ahora está ya en el mundo.
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].
Vosotros, hijitos, sois de Dios, y los habéis vencido, porque el que está en vosotros es mayor que el que está en el mundo.
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.
Ellos son del mundo; por eso hablan según el mundo, y el mundo los escucha.
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].
Nosotros somos de Dios. El que conoce a Dios nos escucha a nosotros; el que no es de Dios no nos escucha. En esto conocemos el Espíritu de la verdad y el espíritu del error.
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.
Carísimos, amémonos unos a otros, porque el amor es de Dios, y todo el que ama es nacido de Dios y conoce a Dios.
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.
El que no ama, no ha aprendido a conocer a Dios, porque Dios es amor.
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].
Y el amor de Dios se ha manifestado en nosotros en que Dios envió al mundo su Hijo Unigénito, para que nosotros vivamos por Él.
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}.
En esto está el amor: no en que nosotros hayamos amado a Dios, sino en que Él nos amó a nosotros y envió su Hijo como propiciación por nuestros pecados.
11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
Amados, si de tal manera nos amó Dios, también nosotros debemos amarnos mutuamente.
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].
A Dios nadie lo ha visto jamás; mas si nos amamos unos a otros, Dios permanece en nosotros y su amor llega en nosotros a la perfección.
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.
En esto conocemos que permanecemos en Él y Él en nosotros, en que nos ha dado de su Espíritu.
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].
Y nosotros vimos y testificamos que el Padre envió al Hijo como Salvador del mundo.
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.
Quienquiera confiesa que Jesús es el Hijo de Dios, Dios permanece en él y él en Dios.
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.
En cuanto a nosotros, hemos conocido el amor que Dios nos tiene y hemos creído en ese amor. Dios es amor; y el que permanece en el amor, en Dios permanece y Dios permanece en él.
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.
En esto es perfecto el amor en nosotros —de modo que tengamos confianza segura en el día del juicio— porque tal como es Él somos también nosotros en este mundo.
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.
En el amor no hay temor; al contrario, el amor perfecto echa fuera el temor, pues el temor supone castigo. El que teme no es perfecto en el amor.
19 We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
Nosotros amamos porque Él nos amó primero.
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 alguno dice: “Yo amo a Dios”, y odia a su hermano, es un mentiroso; pues el que no ama a su hermano a quien ve, no puede amar a Dios, a quien nunca ha visto.
21 Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
Y este es el mandamiento que tenemos de Él: que quien ama a Dios ame también a su hermano.
