4Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.G27G4100G3361G3956G4151G235G1381G4151G1487G2076G1537G2316G3754G4183G5578G1831G1519G28892This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.G1722G3739G5129G1097G4151G2316G3956G4151G3670G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G1537G23163But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.G2532G3956G4151G3739G3670G3361G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G5124G2076G500G3739G191G3754G2064G2532G3568G2235G2076G1722G28894You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.G5210G2075G1537G2316G5040G2532G3528G846G3754G3187G2076G1722G5213G2228G1722G28895They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.G846G1526G1537G2889G1223G5124G2980G1537G2889G2532G2889G191G8466We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.G2249G2070G1537G2316G1097G2316G191G2257G3739G2076G3756G1537G2316G191G3756G2257G1537G5127G1097G4151G225G2532G4151G4106
Knowing God through Love
7Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.G27G25G240G3754G26G2076G1537G2316G2532G3956G25G1080G1537G2316G2532G1097G23168The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.G25G3361G1097G3756G2316G3754G2316G2076G269God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.G1722G5129G5319G26G2316G1722G2254G3754G2316G649G846G3439G5207G1519G2889G2443G2198G1223G84610Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.G1722G5129G2076G26G3754G3756G2249G25G2316G235G3754G846G25G2248G2532G649G846G5207G2434G4012G2257G26611Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.G27G1487G2316G3779G25G2248G2249G3784G2532G25G24012No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is perfected in us.G3762G2300G2316G4455G1437G25G240G2316G3306G1722G2254G2532G846G26G2076G5048G1722G225413This is how we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given to us from His Spirit.G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2254G3754G1325G2254G1537G846G415114And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.G2532G2249G2300G2532G3140G3754G3962G649G5207G4990G288915Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God— God remains in him and he in God.G3739G302G3670G3754G2424G2076G5207G2316G2316G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G231616And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.G2532G2249G1097G2532G4100G26G3739G2316G2192G1722G2254G2316G2076G26G2532G3306G1722G26G3306G1722G2316G2532G2316G1722G84617In this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; for we are as He is in this world.G1722G5129G3326G2257G26G5048G2443G2192G3954G1722G2250G2920G3754G2531G1565G2076G2532G2070G2249G1722G5129G288918There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love.G2076G3756G5401G1722G26G235G5046G26G906G1854G5401G3754G5401G2192G2851G1161G5399G5048G3756G5048G1722G2619We love because He first loved us.G2249G25G846G3754G846G4413G25G2248
Keeping God’s Commands
20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.G1437G5100G2036G3754G25G2316G2532G3404G846G80G2076G5583G1063G25G3361G846G80G3739G3708G4459G1410G25G2316G3739G3708G3756G370821And we have this command from Him: the one who loves God must also love his brother.G2532G5026G1785G2192G575G846G2443G25G2316G25G846G80G2532