1 John 4:1-10

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 In this know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and that now it is already in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world; therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. Anyone that loves is born of God and knows God.

8 He that does not love does not know God, for God is charity.

9 In this was the charity of God demonstrated in us, in that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 In this does the charity consist, not because we had loved God, but because he loved us and has sent his Son to be the reconciliation for our sins.