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1 John 4

John tells believers to test the spirits, because not every teacher speaks from God. God is love, and he showed it by sending his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. We love because he first loved us. There is no fear in love; perfect love casts out fear. Whoever loves God must love their brother too.

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Key verses

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.Selected1 John 4:1Ask

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:Selected1 John 4:2Ask

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.Selected1 John 4:3Ask

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.Selected1 John 4:4Ask

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.Selected1 John 4:5Ask

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.Selected1 John 4:6Ask

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.Selected1 John 4:7Ask

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.Selected1 John 4:8Ask

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.Selected1 John 4:9Ask

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.Selected1 John 4:10Ask

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.Selected1 John 4:11Ask

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.Selected1 John 4:12Ask

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.Selected1 John 4:13Ask

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.Selected1 John 4:14Ask

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.Selected1 John 4:15Ask

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.Selected1 John 4:16Ask

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.Selected1 John 4:17Ask

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.Selected1 John 4:18Ask

We love him, because he first loved us.Selected1 John 4:19Ask

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?Selected1 John 4:20Ask

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.Selected1 John 4:21Ask

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