Ioanej I 4

1 KOMPOK kan, komail der pojon nen karoj, a kajaui jon en nen akan, ma re tapida jan ren Kot. Pwe jaukop likam me toto kaparapar jili jappa.

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 let me komail ajaki Nen en Kot: Nen karoj, me kadede, me Iejuj Krijtuj koti don uduk, nan i me tapida jan ren Kot.

[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 O nen karoj, me jo kadede, Iejuj a jota tapida jan ren Kot, Nan i krijtuj likam, duen me komail roner, me a pan pwarado, nan a mier jappa metet.

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 Jama ko, komail tapi jan ren Kot o kaloe irail edi, pwe i, me kotikot re omail, me lapa jan i, me mi ni jappa.

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 Irail me udan jappa, iei me irail lokaiaki jappa, o jappa kin ron irail.

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 Kitail tapi janer ren Kot, me aja Kot, kin ron kitail. A me jo jan ren Kot, jota kin ron kitail. Iei me kitail ajaki Nen en melel, o me udan likam.

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 Kompok kan, kitail kin poke, pwe limpok tapi jan ren Kot, A amen amen, me kin limpok, ipwi jan ren Kot, o a aja Kot.

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 Me jo kin limpok, jaja Kot, pwe Kot udan limpok.

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 Ni met limpok en Kot janjal don kitail: Kot kotin porone don jappa japwilim a Ieroj eu, pwe kitail en maur ki i.

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 Ietet pajon en limpok, kaidin kitail me tapin limpok on Kot, pwe a tapin pok on kitail, o poronedo japwilim a Ol, wiala jauntom pan dip atail.

[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 Kompok kan, ma Kot kin limpoki on kitail due met, kitail en pil limpok pena.

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

12 Jota me kilaner Kot ni anjau eu. Ma kitail limpok pena, nan Kot pan kotikot re atail, o a limpok me unjokelar re atail.

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 I me kitail ajaki, me kitail mimieta re a, o a kotikot re atail, pwe a kotin kupurai don kitail er Nen i.

[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 O je kilaner o kadededa, me Jam poronedo japwilim a Ol, en wiala Jaunkamaur pan jappa.

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 Meamen me ponaja Iejuj, me Japwilim en Kot, nan Kot me kotikot re a, o i ren Kot.

[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 O kitail dedekier o kamelele limpok, me Kot kotin wiai on kitail. Kot me limpok, o me kin potopot ni limpok, kin potopot ren Kot, o Kot kotikot re a.

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 let unjok en atail limpok: Kitail pan aima ni ran en kadeik, pwe duen i, iduen kitail nin jappa et.

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 Jota majak ni limpok, pwe limpok melel kin kauja jan majak, pwe majak kin kareda kamekam. Ari, me kin majak, nan a limpok jaikenta unjokala.

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 Kitail kin limpok, pwe i me kotin tapiadar pok on kitail.

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

20 Ma amen kin inda: I kin pok on Kot, ap kin jempok on ri a, nan i me likam amen, pwe me kin jempok on ri a, me a kilaner, da a pan kak pok on Kot, me a jota kilaner?

[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 A kujoned pot et kitail aleer jan re a, me i, me pok on Kot, en pil pok on ri a.

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