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1 John 4:2-12

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2 By this you know the Spirit of God: 1every spirit that confesses that 2Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 and every spirit 3that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and 4now is in the world already.
4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for 5he who is in you is greater than 6he who is in the world.
5 7They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and 8the world listens to them.
6 We are from God. 9Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know 10the Spirit of truth and 11the spirit of error.

God Is Love

7 Beloved, 12let us love one another, for love is from God, and 13whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 14Anyone who does not love does not know God, because 15God is love.
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that 16God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, 17not that we have loved God 18but that he loved us and sent his Son to be 19the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 20No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and 21his love is perfected in us.
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Cross References 21

  • 1. [1 Corinthians 12:3]
  • 2. 2 John 7
  • 3. 1 John 2:22; 2 John 7
  • 4. 1 John 2:18; [2 Thessalonians 2:3-7]
  • 5. See Romans 8:31
  • 6. [1 Corinthians 2:12]; See John 12:31
  • 7. John 3:31; John 8:23
  • 8. John 15:19
  • 9. [John 8:47; John 10:16; John 18:37; 1 Corinthians 14:37]
  • 10. John 14:17; John 15:26; John 16:13
  • 11. [1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 Timothy 4:1]
  • 12. 1 John 3:11
  • 13. 1 John 2:29
  • 14. 1 John 3:10
  • 15. ver. 16; 2 Corinthians 13:11; [1 John 1:5; John 4:24]
  • 16. See John 3:16
  • 17. Romans 5:8, 10
  • 18. [See ver. 9 above]
  • 19. See 1 John 2:2
  • 20. ver. 20; John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16
  • 21. 1 John 2:5
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.