I Jana 4
1 Umiłowani, nie wierzcie każdemu duchowi, ale badajcie duchy, czy są z Boga, gdyż wielu fałszywych proroków wyszło na świat.
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 Po tym poznacie Ducha Bożego: każdy duch, który wyznaje, że Jezus Chrystus przyszedł w ciele, jest z Boga.
[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 Każdy zaś duch, który nie wyznaje, że Jezus Chrystus przyszedł w ciele, nie jest z Boga. Jest to [duch] antychrysta, o którym słyszeliście, że nadchodzi i już teraz jest na świecie.
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 Dzieci, wy jesteście z Boga i zwyciężyliście ich, ponieważ ten, który [jest] w was, jest większy niż [ten, który] jest na świecie.
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 Oni są ze świata, dlatego mówią o świecie, a świat ich słucha.
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 My jesteśmy z Boga. Kto zna Boga, słucha nas, kto nie jest z Boga, nie słucha nas. Po tym poznajemy ducha prawdy i ducha błędu.
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 Umiłowani, miłujmy się wzajemnie, gdyż miłość jest z Boga i każdy, kto miłuje, narodził się z Boga i zna Boga.
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 Kto nie miłuje, nie zna Boga, gdyż Bóg jest miłością.
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 Przez to objawiła się miłość Boga ku nam, że Bóg posłał na świat swego jednorodzonego Syna, abyśmy żyli przez niego.
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 Na tym polega miłość, że nie my umiłowaliśmy Boga, ale że on nas umiłował i posłał swego Syna, [aby był] przebłaganiem za nasze grzechy.
[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 Umiłowani, jeśli Bóg tak nas umiłował, to i my powinniśmy się wzajemnie miłować.
Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
12 Boga nikt nigdy nie widział, [ale] jeśli miłujemy się wzajemnie, Bóg w nas mieszka, a jego miłość jest w nas doskonała.
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 Po tym poznajemy, że w nim mieszkamy, a on w nas, że dał nam ze swego Ducha.
[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 My zaś widzieliśmy i świadczymy, że Ojciec posłał Syna, aby był Zbawicielem świata.
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 Każdy, kto wyzna, że Jezus jest Synem Bożym, w tym mieszka Bóg, a on w Bogu.
[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 My poznaliśmy i uwierzyliśmy w miłość, którą ma Bóg do nas. Bóg jest miłością, a kto trwa w miłości, mieszka w Bogu, a Bóg w nim.
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 W tym jest doskonała miłość w nas, abyśmy mieli ufność w dniu sądu, że jaki on jest, tacy i my jesteśmy na tym świecie.
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 W miłości nie ma lęku, ale doskonała miłość usuwa lęk, bo lęk przynosi udrękę, [a] kto się boi, nie jest doskonały w miłości.
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 My go miłujemy, ponieważ on pierwszy nas umiłował.
We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
20 Jeśli ktoś mówi: Miłuję Boga, a nienawidzi swego brata, jest kłamcą. Kto bowiem nie miłuje swego brata, którego widzi, jak może miłować Boga, którego nie widzi?
[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 takie przykazanie mamy od niego, aby ten, kto miłuje Boga, miłował też swego brata.
Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
