4Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, 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 God's Spirit: Every spirit who acknowledges that Jesus the Messiah has become human - and remains so - is from God.G1722G3739G5129G1097G4151G2316G3956G4151G3670G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G1537G23163But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he is coming, and now he is already in the world.G2532G3956G4151G3739G3670G3361G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G5124G2076G500G3739G191G3754G2064G2532G3568G2235G2076G1722G28894Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.G5210G2075G1537G2316G5040G2532G3528G846G3754G3187G2076G1722G5213G2228G1722G28895These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.G846G1526G1537G2889G1223G5124G2980G1537G2889G2532G2889G191G8466We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.4G2249G2070G1537G2316G1097G2316G191G2257G3739G2076G3756G1537G2316G191G3756G2257G1537G5127G1097G4151G225G2532G4151G4106
God’s Love Lives in Us
7Dear friends, let us continually love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.G27G25G240G3754G26G2076G1537G2316G2532G3956G25G1080G1537G2316G2532G1097G23168The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.G25G3361G1097G3756G2316G3754G2316G2076G269This is how God's love was revealed among us: God sent his unique Son into the world so that we might live through him.G1722G5129G5319G26G2316G1722G2254G3754G2316G649G846G3439G5207G1519G2889G2443G2198G1223G84610This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.G1722G5129G2076G26G3754G3756G2249G25G2316G235G3754G846G25G2248G2532G649G846G5207G2434G4012G2257G26611Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love one another.G27G1487G2316G3779G25G2248G2249G3784G2532G25G24012No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.G3762G2300G2316G4455G1437G25G240G2316G3306G1722G2254G2532G846G26G2076G5048G1722G225413This is how we know that we abide in him and he in us: he has given us his Spirit.G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2254G3754G1325G2254G1537G846G415114We have seen for ourselves and can testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.G2532G2249G2300G2532G3140G3754G3962G649G5207G4990G288915God abides in the one who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and he abides in God.G3739G302G3670G3754G2424G2076G5207G2316G2316G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G231616We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.G2532G2249G1097G2532G4100G26G3739G2316G2192G1722G2254G2316G2076G26G2532G3306G1722G26G3306G1722G2316G2532G2316G1722G84617This is how love has been perfected among us: we will have confidence on the day of judgment because, during our time in this world, we are just like him.G1722G5129G3326G2257G26G5048G2443G2192G3954G1722G2250G2920G3754G2531G1565G2076G2532G2070G2249G1722G5129G288918There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.G2076G3756G5401G1722G26G235G5046G26G906G1854G5401G3754G5401G2192G2851G1161G5399G5048G3756G5048G1722G2619We love because God first loved us.G2249G25G846G3754G846G4413G25G224820Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.G1437G5100G2036G3754G25G2316G2532G3404G846G80G2076G5583G1063G25G3361G846G80G3739G3708G4459G1410G25G2316G3739G3708G3756G370821And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.G2532G5026G1785G2192G575G846G2443G25G2316G25G846G80G2532