1 yOhanaH 4

1 hE priyatamAH, yUyaM sarvvESvAtmasu na vizvasita kintu tE IzvarAt jAtA na vEtyAtmanaH parIkSadhvaM yatO bahavO mRSAbhaviSyadvAdinO jaganmadhyam AgatavantaH|

Dear ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 IzvarIyO ya AtmA sa yuSmAbhiranEna paricIyatAM, yIzuH khrISTO narAvatArO bhUtvAgata Etad yEna kEnacid AtmanA svIkriyatE sa IzvarIyaH|

By this the Spirit of God is known: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is of God,

3 kintu yIzuH khrISTO narAvatArO bhUtvAgata Etad yEna kEnacid AtmanA nAggIkriyatE sa IzvarIyO nahi kintu khrISTArErAtmA, tEna cAgantavyamiti yuSmAbhiH zrutaM, sa cEdAnImapi jagati varttatE|

and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is not of God; indeed, this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming—actually, it is already in the world right now.

4 hE bAlakAH, yUyam IzvarAt jAtAstAn jitavantazca yataH saMsArAdhiSThAnakAriNO 'pi yuSmadadhiSThAnakArI mahAn|

Dear children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than the one in the world.

5 tE saMsArAt jAtAstatO hEtOH saMsArAd bhASantE saMsArazca tESAM vAkyAni gRhlAti|

They are of the world; that is why they speak of the world, and the world listens to them.

6 vayam IzvarAt jAtAH, IzvaraM yO jAnAti sO'smadvAkyAni gRhlAti yazcEzvarAt jAtO nahi sO'smadvAkyAni na gRhlAti; anEna vayaM satyAtmAnaM bhrAmakAtmAnanjca paricinumaH|

We are of God: he who knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us—by this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception.

7 hE priyatamAH, vayaM parasparaM prEma karavAma, yataH prEma IzvarAt jAyatE, aparaM yaH kazcit prEma karOti sa IzvarAt jAta IzvaraM vEtti ca|

Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God.

8 yaH prEma na karOti sa IzvaraM na jAnAti yata IzvaraH prEmasvarUpaH|

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 asmAsvIzvarasya prEmaitEna prAkAzata yat svaputrENAsmabhyaM jIvanadAnArtham IzvaraH svIyam advitIyaM putraM jaganmadhyaM prESitavAn|

God's love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him.

10 vayaM yad IzvarE prItavanta ityatra nahi kintu sa yadasmAsu prItavAn asmatpApAnAM prAyazcirttArthaM svaputraM prESitavAMzcEtyatra prEma santiSThatE|

In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

11 hE priyatamAH, asmAsu yadIzvarENaitAdRzaM prEma kRtaM tarhi parasparaM prEma karttum asmAkamapyucitaM|

Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.

12 IzvaraH kadAca kEnApi na dRSTaH yadyasmAbhiH parasparaM prEma kriyatE tarhIzvarO 'smanmadhyE tiSThati tasya prEma cAsmAsu sEtsyatE|

No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us.

13 asmabhyaM tEna svakIyAtmanOM'zO datta ityanEna vayaM yat tasmin tiSThAmaH sa ca yad asmAsu tiSThatIti jAnImaH|

By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14 pitA jagatrAtAraM putraM prESitavAn Etad vayaM dRSTvA pramANayAmaH|

Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

15 yIzurIzvarasya putra Etad yEnAggIkriyatE tasmin IzvarastiSThati sa cEzvarE tiSThati|

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

16 asmAsvIzvarasya yat prEma varttatE tad vayaM jnjAtavantastasmin vizvAsitavantazca| IzvaraH prEmasvarUpaH prEmnI yastiSThati sa IzvarE tiSThati tasmiMzcEzvarastiSThati|

Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him.

17 sa yAdRzO 'sti vayamapyEtasmin jagati tAdRzA bhavAma EtasmAd vicAradinE 'smAbhi ryA pratibhA labhyatE sAsmatsambandhIyasya prEmnaH siddhiH|

The love is perfected with us for this: that we may have confidence in the Day of judgment, since just as He is so are we in this world.

18 prEmni bhIti rna varttatE kintu siddhaM prEma bhItiM nirAkarOti yatO bhItiH sayAtanAsti bhItO mAnavaH prEmni siddhO na jAtaH|

There is no fear in love; rather perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment; so he who fears has not been perfected in love.

19 asmAsu sa prathamaM prItavAn iti kAraNAd vayaM tasmin prIyAmahE|

We love Him because He first loved us.

20 IzvarE 'haM prIya ityuktvA yaH kazcit svabhrAtaraM dvESTi sO 'nRtavAdI| sa yaM dRSTavAn tasmin svabhrAtari yadi na prIyatE tarhi yam IzvaraM na dRSTavAn kathaM tasmin prEma karttuM zaknuyAt?

If anyone says, “I love God,” while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he has not seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen?

21 ata IzvarE yaH prIyatE sa svIyabhrAtaryyapi prIyatAm iyam AjnjA tasmAd asmAbhi rlabdhA|

Indeed, this commandment we have from Him: he who loves God must love his brother also.