4Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.G27G4100G3361G3956G4151G235G1381G4151G1487G2076G1537G2316G3754G4183G5578G1831G1519G28892This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,G1722G3739G5129G1097G4151G2316G3956G4151G3670G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G1537G23163but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.G2532G3956G4151G3739G3670G3361G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G5124G2076G500G3739G191G3754G2064G2532G3568G2235G2076G1722G28894You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.G5210G2075G1537G2316G5040G2532G3528G846G3754G3187G2076G1722G5213G2228G1722G28895They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.G846G1526G1537G2889G1223G5124G2980G1537G2889G2532G2889G191G8466We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.G2249G2070G1537G2316G1097G2316G191G2257G3739G2076G3756G1537G2316G191G3756G2257G1537G5127G1097G4151G225G2532G4151G41067Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.G27G25G240G3754G26G2076G1537G2316G2532G3956G25G1080G1537G2316G2532G1097G23168Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.G25G3361G1097G3756G2316G3754G2316G2076G269This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.G1722G5129G5319G26G2316G1722G2254G3754G2316G649G846G3439G5207G1519G2889G2443G2198G1223G84610This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.G1722G5129G2076G26G3754G3756G2249G25G2316G235G3754G846G25G2248G2532G649G846G5207G2434G4012G2257G26611Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.G27G1487G2316G3779G25G2248G2249G3784G2532G25G24012No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.G3762G2300G2316G4455G1437G25G240G2316G3306G1722G2254G2532G846G26G2076G5048G1722G225413This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2254G3754G1325G2254G1537G846G415114And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.G2532G2249G2300G2532G3140G3754G3962G649G5207G4990G288915If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.G3739G302G3670G3754G2424G2076G5207G2316G2316G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G231616And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.G2532G2249G1097G2532G4100G26G3739G2316G2192G1722G2254G2316G2076G26G2532G3306G1722G26G3306G1722G2316G2532G2316G1722G84617This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.G1722G5129G3326G2257G26G5048G2443G2192G3954G1722G2250G2920G3754G2531G1565G2076G2532G2070G2249G1722G5129G288918There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.G2076G3756G5401G1722G26G235G5046G26G906G1854G5401G3754G5401G2192G2851G1161G5399G5048G3756G5048G1722G2619We love because he first loved us.G2249G25G846G3754G846G4413G25G224820If we say we love God yet hate a brother or sister, we are liars. For if we do not love a fellow believer, whom we have seen, we cannot love God, whom we have not seen.G1437G5100G2036G3754G25G2316G2532G3404G846G80G2076G5583G1063G25G3361G846G80G3739G3708G4459G1410G25G2316G3739G3708G3756G370821And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love one another.G2532G5026G1785G2192G575G846G2443G25G2316G25G846G80G2532
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