Ioanes I 4
1 KOMPOK kan, komail der poson ngen karos, a kasaui song en ngen akan, ma re tapida sang ren Kot. Pwe saukop likam me toto kaparapar sili sappa.
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world.
2 Iet me komail asaki Ngen en Kot: Ngen karos, me kadede, me Iesus Kristus koti dong uduk, nan i me tapida sang ren Kot.
The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God,
3 O ngen karos, me so kadede, Iesus a sota tapida sang ren Kot, Nan i kristus likam, duen me komail ronger, me a pan pwarado, nan a mier sappa metet.
and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.
4 Sama ko, komail tapi sang ren Kot o kaloe irail edi, pwe i, me kotikot re omail, me lapa sang i, me mi ni sappa.
As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
5 Irail me udan sappa, iei me irail lokaiaki sappa, o sappa kin rong irail.
They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.
6 Kitail tapi sanger ren Kot, me asa Kot, kin rong kitail. A me so sang ren Kot, sota kin rong kitail. Iei me kitail asaki Ngen en melel, o me udan likam.
The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
7 Kompok kan, kitail kin poke pena, pwe limpok tapi sang ren Kot, A amen amen, me kin limpok, ipwi sang ren Kot, o a asa Kot.
Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.
8 Me so kin limpok, sasa Kot, pwe Kot udan limpok.
He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
9 Ni met limpok en Kot sansal dong kitail: Kot kotin porone dong sappa sapwilim a Ieros eu, pwe kitail en maur ki i.
God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.
10 Ietet pason en limpok, kaidin kitail me tapin limpok ong Kot, pwe a tapin pok ong kitail, o poronedo sapwilim a Ol, wiala sauntom pan dip atail.
This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Kompok kan, ma Kot kin limpoki ong kitail due met, kitail en pil limpok pena.
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 Sota me kilanger Kot ni ansau eu. Ma kitail limpok pena, nan Kot pan kotikot re atail, o a limpok me unsokelar re atail.
No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.
13 I me kitail asaki, me kitail mimieta re a, o a kotikot re atail, pwe a kotin kupurai dong kitail er Ngen i.
We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.
14 O se kilanger o kadededa, me Sam poronedo sapwilim a Ol, en wiala Saunkamaur pan sappa.
And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Meamen me ponasa Iesus, me Sapwilim en Kot, nan Kot me kotikot re a, o i ren Kot.
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God.
16 O kitail dedekier o kamelele limpok, me Kot kotin wiai ong kitail. Kot me limpok, o me kin potopot ni limpok, kin potopot ren Kot, o Kot kotikot re a.
And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.
17 Iet unsok en atail limpok: Kitail pan aima ni ran en kadeik, pwe duen i, iduen kitail nin sappa et.
Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world.
18 Sota masak ni limpok, pwe limpok melel kin kausa sang masak, pwe masak kin kareda kamekam. Ari, me kin masak, nan a limpok saikenta unsokala.
Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.
19 Kitail kin limpok, pwe i me kotin tapiadar pok ong kitail.
We love because God first loved us.
20 Ma amen kin inda: I kin pok ong Kot, ap kin sempok ong ri a, nan i me likam amen, pwe me kin sempok ong ri a, me a kilanger, da a pan kak pok ong Kot, me a sota kilanger?
If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 A kusoned pot et kitail aleer sang re a, me i, me pok ong Kot, en pil pok ong ri a.
And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.
