Ιωαννου Α΄ 4
1 αγαπητοι μη παντι πνευματι πιστευετε αλλα δοκιμαζετε τα πνευματα ει εκ του θεου εστιν οτι πολλοι ψευδοπροφηται εξεληλυθασιν εισ τον κοσμον
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 εν τουτω γινωσκεται το πνευμα του θεου παν πνευμα ο ομολογει ιησουν χριστον εν σαρκι εληλυθοτα εκ του θεου εστιν
[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 και παν πνευμα ο μη ομολογει ιησουν χριστον εν σαρκι εληλυθοτα εκ του θεου ουκ εστιν και τουτο εστιν το του αντιχριστου ο ακηκοατε οτι ερχεται και νυν εν τω κοσμω εστιν ηδη
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 υμεισ εκ του θεου εστε τεκνια και νενικηκατε αυτουσ οτι μειζων εστιν ο εν υμιν η ο εν τω κοσμω
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 αυτοι εκ του κοσμου εισιν δια τουτο εκ του κοσμου λαλουσιν και ο κοσμοσ αυτων ακουει
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 ημεισ εκ του θεου εσμεν ο γινωσκων τον θεον ακουει ημων οσ ουκ εστιν εκ του θεου ουκ ακουει ημων εκ τουτου γινωσκομεν το πνευμα τησ αληθειασ και το πνευμα τησ πλανησ
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 αγαπητοι αγαπωμεν αλληλουσ οτι η αγαπη εκ του θεου εστιν και πασ ο αγαπων εκ του θεου γεγεννηται και γινωσκει τον θεον
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 ο μη αγαπων ουκ εγνω τον θεον οτι ο θεοσ αγαπη εστιν
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 εν τουτω εφανερωθη η αγαπη του θεου εν ημιν οτι τον υιον αυτου τον μονογενη απεσταλκεν ο θεοσ εισ τον κοσμον ινα ζησωμεν δι αυτου
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 εν τουτω εστιν η αγαπη ουχ οτι ημεισ ηγαπησαμεν τον θεον αλλ οτι αυτοσ ηγαπησεν ημασ και απεστειλεν τον υιον αυτου ιλασμον περι των αμαρτιων ημων
[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 αγαπητοι ει ουτωσ ο θεοσ ηγαπησεν ημασ και ημεισ οφειλομεν αλληλουσ αγαπαν
Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
12 θεον ουδεισ πωποτε τεθεαται εαν αγαπωμεν αλληλουσ ο θεοσ εν ημιν μενει και η αγαπη αυτου τετελειωμενη εστιν εν ημιν
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 εν τουτω γινωσκομεν οτι εν αυτω μενομεν και αυτοσ εν ημιν οτι εκ του πνευματοσ αυτου δεδωκεν ημιν
[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 και ημεισ τεθεαμεθα και μαρτυρουμεν οτι ο πατηρ απεσταλκεν τον υιον σωτηρα του κοσμου
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 οσ αν ομολογηση οτι ιησουσ εστιν ο υιοσ του θεου ο θεοσ εν αυτω μενει και αυτοσ εν τω θεω
[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 και ημεισ εγνωκαμεν και πεπιστευκαμεν την αγαπην ην εχει ο θεοσ εν ημιν ο θεοσ αγαπη εστιν και ο μενων εν τη αγαπη εν τω θεω μενει και ο θεοσ εν αυτω μενει
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 εν τουτω τετελειωται η αγαπη μεθ ημων ινα παρρησιαν εχωμεν εν τη ημερα τησ κρισεωσ οτι καθωσ εκεινοσ εστιν και ημεισ εσμεν εν τω κοσμω τουτω
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 φοβοσ ουκ εστιν εν τη αγαπη αλλ η τελεια αγαπη εξω βαλλει τον φοβον οτι ο φοβοσ κολασιν εχει ο δε φοβουμενοσ ου τετελειωται εν τη αγαπη
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 ημεισ αγαπωμεν αυτον οτι αυτοσ πρωτοσ ηγαπησεν ημασ
We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
20 εαν τισ ειπη οτι αγαπω τον θεον και τον αδελφον αυτου μιση ψευστησ εστιν ο γαρ μη αγαπων τον αδελφον αυτου ον εωρακεν τον θεον ον ουχ εωρακεν πωσ δυναται αγαπαν
[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 και ταυτην την εντολην εχομεν απ αυτου ινα ο αγαπων τον θεον αγαπα και τον αδελφον αυτου
Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
