4My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere.G27G4100G3361G3956G4151G235G1381G4151G1487G2076G1537G2316G3754G4183G5578G1831G1519G28892This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God.G1722G3739G5129G1097G4151G2316G3956G4151G3670G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G1537G23163But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.G2532G3956G4151G3739G3670G3361G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G5124G2076G500G3739G191G3754G2064G2532G3568G2235G2076G1722G28894But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world.G5210G2075G1537G2316G5040G2532G3528G846G3754G3187G2076G1722G5213G2228G1722G28895Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world.G846G1526G1537G2889G1223G5124G2980G1537G2889G2532G2889G191G8466But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.G2249G2070G1537G2316G1097G2316G191G2257G3739G2076G3756G1537G2316G191G3756G2257G1537G5127G1097G4151G225G2532G4151G4106
God Is Love
7Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.G27G25G240G3754G26G2076G1537G2316G2532G3956G25G1080G1537G2316G2532G1097G23168Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.G25G3361G1097G3756G2316G3754G2316G2076G269And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.G1722G5129G5319G26G2316G1722G2254G3754G2316G649G846G3439G5207G1519G2889G2443G2198G1223G84610This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.G1722G5129G2076G26G3754G3756G2249G25G2316G235G3754G846G25G2248G2532G649G846G5207G2434G4012G2257G26611Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.G27G1487G2316G3779G25G2248G2249G3784G2532G25G24012No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.G3762G2300G2316G4455G1437G25G240G2316G3306G1722G2254G2532G846G26G2076G5048G1722G225413We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2254G3754G1325G2254G1537G846G415114And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.G2532G2249G2300G2532G3140G3754G3962G649G5207G4990G288915If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us.G3739G302G3670G3754G2424G2076G5207G2316G2316G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G231616And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.G2532G2249G1097G2532G4100G26G3739G2316G2192G1722G2254G2316G2076G26G2532G3306G1722G26G3306G1722G2316G2532G2316G1722G84617Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ's.G1722G5129G3326G2257G26G5048G2443G2192G3954G1722G2250G2920G3754G2531G1565G2076G2532G2070G2249G1722G5129G288918There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.G2076G3756G5401G1722G26G235G5046G26G906G1854G5401G3754G5401G2192G2851G1161G5399G5048G3756G5048G1722G2619We love because God first loved us.G2249G25G846G3754G846G4413G25G224820If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.G1437G5100G2036G3754G25G2316G2532G3404G846G80G2076G5583G1063G25G3361G846G80G3739G3708G4459G1410G25G2316G3739G3708G3756G370821The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.G2532G5026G1785G2192G575G846G2443G25G2316G25G846G80G2532
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