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1 John 4 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Love for God and One Another
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:1 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:2 - By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:3 - and every spirit that does not confess that[fn] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:4 - You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:5 - They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:6 - We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
(cf. John 3:16 )
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:8 - He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:9 - In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:10 - In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:11 - Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:12 - No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:13 - By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:14 - And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:15 - Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:16 - And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
The Consummation of Love
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:17 - Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:19 - We love Him[fn] because He first loved us.
Obedience by Faith
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:20 - If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can[fn] he love God whom he has not seen?
Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:21 - And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text omits that and Christ has come in the flesh.
NU-Text omits Him.
NU-Text reads he cannot.
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