1 Jean 4

1 Bien-aimés, ne croyez pas tout esprit, mais éprouvez les esprits [pour voir] s’ils sont de Dieu, car beaucoup de faux prophètes sont sortis dans le monde.

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.

2 Par ceci vous connaissez l’Esprit de Dieu: tout esprit qui confesse Jésus Christ venu en chair est de Dieu,

[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.

3 et tout esprit qui ne confesse pas Jésus Christ venu en chair n’est pas de Dieu; et ceci est l’[esprit] de l’antichrist, duquel vous avez entendu dire qu’il vient, et déjà maintenant il est dans le monde.

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!

4 Pour vous, 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.

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].

5 Pour eux, ils sont du monde; c’est pourquoi ils parlent selon les principes du monde, et le monde les écoute.

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.

6 Nous, nous sommes de Dieu; celui qui connaît Dieu nous écoute; celui qui n’est pas de Dieu ne nous écoute pas: à cela nous connaissons l’esprit de vérité et l’esprit d’erreur.

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].

7 Bien-aimés, aimons-nous l’un l’autre, car l’amour est de Dieu, et quiconque aime est né de Dieu et connaît Dieu.

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.

8 Celui qui n’aime pas n’a pas connu Dieu, car Dieu est amour.

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.

9 En ceci a été manifesté l’amour de Dieu pour nous, c’est que Dieu a envoyé son Fils unique dans le monde, afin que nous vivions par lui;

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].

10 en ceci est l’amour, non en ce que nous, nous ayons aimé Dieu, mais en ce que lui nous aima et qu’il envoya son Fils [pour être la] propitiation pour nos péchés.

[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}.

11 Bien-aimés, si Dieu nous aima ainsi, nous aussi nous devons nous aimer l’un l’autre.

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

12 Personne ne vit jamais Dieu; si nous nous aimons l’un l’autre, Dieu demeure en nous, et son amour est consommé en nous.

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].

13 Par ceci nous savons que nous demeurons en lui et lui en nous, c’est qu’il nous a donné de son Esprit;

[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.

14 et nous, nous avons vu et nous témoignons que le Père a envoyé le Fils [pour être le] Sauveur du monde.

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].

15 Quiconque confessera que Jésus est le Fils de Dieu, Dieu demeure en lui et lui en Dieu.

[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.

16 Et nous avons connu et cru l’amour que Dieu a pour nous. Dieu est amour, et celui qui demeure dans l’amour, demeure en Dieu et Dieu en lui.

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.

17 En ceci est consommé l’amour avec nous, afin que nous ayons toute assurance au jour du jugement, c’est que, comme il est, lui, nous sommes, nous aussi, dans ce monde.

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.

18 Il n’y a pas de crainte dans l’amour, mais l’amour parfait chasse la crainte, car la crainte porte avec elle du tourment; et celui qui craint n’est pas consommé dans l’amour.

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.

19 Nous, nous l’aimons parce que lui nous a aimés le premier.

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

20 Si quelqu’un dit: J’aime Dieu, et qu’il haïsse son frère, il est menteur; car celui qui n’aime pas son frère qu’il voit, comment peut-il aimer Dieu qu’il ne voit pas?

[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.

21 Et nous avons ce commandement de sa part, que celui qui aime Dieu, aime aussi son frère.

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