1 John 4:1-10

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

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.Œ

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; and such is the spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already it is 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 heareth them.

6 We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby we know the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us: that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

10 Herein is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.