1 Jọn 4
1 Ndị enyi m hụrụ nʼanya, unu ekwenyela okwu mmụọ niile, kama nwaleenụ mmụọ niile ahụ i mata ma ha si na Chineke, nʼihi na ọtụtụ ndị amụma ụgha apụọla baa nʼime ụwa.
BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.
2 Otu a ka unu ga-esi mata Mmụọ nke Chineke: Mmụọ ọbụla nke na-ekwupụta na Jisọs Kraịst abịala nʼanụ ahụ sitere na Chineke.
By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.
3 Ma mmụọ ọbụla nke na-adịghị ekwupụta Jisọs esiteghị na Chineke, mmụọ dị otu a bụ nke onye ahụ na-emegide Kraịst nke unu nụrụ na ọ ga-abịa, ma ugbu a ọ bịala nʼụwa.
And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.
4 Ụmụntakịrị m, unu bụ ndị sitere na Chineke, unu emeriekwala ha nʼihi na onye ahụ nke bi nʼime unu dị ukwuu karịa onye ahụ nọ nʼime ụwa.
Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
5 Nʼihi na ndị a si nʼime ụwa pụta. Ya mere, ihe ha na-ekwu okwu ya bụ naanị ihe banyere ụwa. Ụwa na-aṅakwa ha ntị.
They are of the world, therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 Anyị sitere na Chineke, onye ọbụla maara Chineke na-ege anyị ntị, ma onye ọbụla na-esiteghị na Chineke anaghị ege anyị ntị. Ọ bụ otu a ka anyị si amata mmụọ eziokwu na mmụọ nke okwu ụgha.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.
7 Ndị m hụrụ nʼanya, o kwesiri ka anyị hụrịtaa onwe anyị nʼanya, nʼihi na ịhụnanya na-esi nʼebe Chineke nọ abịa. Onye ọbụla nwere ịhụnanya bụ onye amụrụ site na Chineke, ọ makwara Chineke.
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 Onye na-enweghị ịhụnanya amaghị Chineke, nʼihi na Chineke bụ ịhụnanya.
He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.
9 E siri otu a mee ka ịhụnanya Chineke nʼebe anyị nọ pụta ìhè: Chineke zitere naanị otu Ọkpara ya nʼụwa ka anyị nwee ndụ site na ya.
By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.
10 Nke a bụ ihe a na-akpọ ịhụnanya, ọ bụghị na anyị hụrụ Chineke nʼanya kama na ọ hụrụ anyị nʼanya ma zite Ọkpara ya dịka aja nke juru ya obi maka mmehie niile anyị.
Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.
11 Ndị m hụrụ nʼanya, ebe ọ bụ na Chineke si otu a hụ anyị nʼanya, anyị kwesiri ịhụrịta onwe anyị nʼanya.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 O nwebeghị mgbe ọbụla anyị ji anya anyị hụ Chineke anya, ma ọ bụrụ na anyị ahụ ibe anyị nʼanya, Chineke na-ebi nʼime anyị. A na-emekwa ka ịhụnanya ya zuo oke nʼime anyị.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 O tinyekwala Mmụọ Nsọ ya nʼime anyị igosi anyị na o bi nʼime anyị, na anyị bikwa nʼime ya.
By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his own Spirit.
14 Ma anyị onwe anyị ahụla ma na-agbakwa ama na Nna ahụ zitere Ọkpara ya ka ọ bụrụ Onye nzọpụta nke ụwa.
And we have seen and bear testimony, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Chineke bi nʼime onye ọbụla nke na-ekwupụta na Jisọs bụ Ọkpara Chineke. Onye dị otu a bikwa nʼime Chineke.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.
16 Anyị maara ma kwerekwa nʼịhụnanya Chineke nwere nʼebe anyị nọ. Chineke bụ ịhụnanya. Onye ọ bụlakwa na-ebi ndụ ịhụnanya na-anọgide nʼime Chineke. Chineke nʼonwe ya na-ebinyekwara onye dị otu a.
And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.
17 Nʼụzọ dị otu a, a na-eme ka ịhụnanya zuo oke nʼetiti anyị, ka anyị nwee ike inwe nkwuwa okwu nʼụbọchị ikpe ahụ, nʼihi na dịka ya onwe ya dị, otu a ka anyị onwe anyị dịkwa nʼụwa nke a.
By this is his love towards us perfected, that we might have confidence at the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 Ịtụ egwu adịghị nʼebe ịhụnanya dị, kama ịhụnanya zuruoke na-achụpụ egwu nʼihi na egwu na ntaramahụhụ na-arụkọ ọrụ, onye ọbụla nke na-atụ egwu bụ onye na-ezubeghị oke nʼịhụnanya.
Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.
19 Anyị hụrụ ya nʼanya nʼihi na o buru ụzọ hụ anyị nʼanya.
We love him, because he first loved us.
20 Onye ọbụla na-asị, “Ahụrụ m Chineke nʼanya,” ma nọgide na-akpọ nwanna ya asị, onye ahụ bụ onye ụgha. Nʼihi na ọ bụrụ na ọ hụghị nwanna ya nʼanya, bụ onye ọ na-ahụ anya kwa ụbọchị, ọ pụghị ịhụ Chineke nʼanya bụ onye ọ na-ahụbeghị anya.
If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?
21 Iwu o nyere anyị bụ, “Onye ọbụla hụrụ Chineke nʼanya aghakwaghị ịhụ nwanna ya nʼanya.”
So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.
