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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 2confesses that 3Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
3 and every spirit that 4does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the 5antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and 6now it is already in the world.
4 You are from God, 7little children, and 8have overcome them; because 9greater is He who is in you than 10he who is in the world.
5 11They are from the world; therefore * they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
6 12We are from God; 13he who knows God listens to us; 14he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know 15the spirit of truth and 16the spirit of error.

God Is Love

7 17Beloved, let us 18love one another, for love is from God; and 19everyone who loves is 20born of God and 21knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, for 22God is love.
9 By this the love of God was manifested 23in us, that 24God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, 25not that we loved God, but that 26He loved us and sent His Son to be 27the propitiation for our sins.
11 28Beloved, if God so loved us, 29we also ought to love one another.
12 30No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His 31love is perfected in us.
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Cross References 31

  • 1. 1 Corinthians 12:3
  • 2. 1 John 2:23
  • 3. John 1:14; 1 John 1:2
  • 4. 1 John 2:22; 2 John 7
  • 5. 1 John 2:18, 22
  • 6. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-7; 1 John 2:18
  • 7. 1 John 2:1
  • 8. 1 John 2:13
  • 9. Romans 8:31; 1 John 3:20
  • 10. John 12:31
  • 11. John 15:19; John 17:14, 16
  • 12. John 8:23; 1 John 4:4
  • 13. John 8:47; John 10:3f; John 18:37
  • 14. 1 Corinthians 14:37
  • 15. John 14:17
  • 16. 1 Timothy 4:1
  • 17. 1 John 2:7
  • 18. 1 John 3:11
  • 19. 1 John 5:1
  • 20. 1 John 2:29
  • 21. 1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 2:3
  • 22. 1 John 4:7, 16
  • 23. John 9:3; 1 John 4:16
  • 24. John 3:16; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 5:11
  • 25. Romans 5:8, 10; 1 John 4:19
  • 26. John 3:16; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:11
  • 27. 1 John 2:2
  • 28. 1 John 2:7
  • 29. 1 John 4:7
  • 30. John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 4:20
  • 31. 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:17

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