4:1 Beloved,
do
not
believe
every
spirit,
but
test
the
spirits
to
see
whether
they
are
from
God,
for
many
false
prophets
have
gone
out
into
the
world.
4:2 By
this
you
know
the
Spirit
of
God:
every
spirit
that
confesses
that
Jesus
Christ
has
come
in
the
flesh
is
from
God,
4:3 and
every
spirit
that
does
not
confess
Jesus
is
not
from
God.
This
is
the
spirit
of
the
antichrist,
which
you
heard
was
coming
and
now
is
in
the
world
already.
4:4 Little
children,
you
are
from
God
and
have
overcome
them,
for
he
who
is
in
you
is
greater
than
he
who
is
in
the
world.
4:5 They
are
from
the
world;
therefore
they
speak
from
the
world,
and
the
world
listens
to
them.
4:6 We
are
from
God.
Whoever
knows
God
listens
to
us;
whoever
is
not
from
God
does
not
listen
to
us.
By
this
we
know
the
Spirit
of
truth
and
the
spirit
of
error.
4:7 Beloved,
let
us
love
one
another,
for
love
is
from
God,
and
whoever
loves
has
been
born
of
God
and
knows
God.
4:8 Anyone
who
does
not
love
does
not
know
God,
because
God
is
love.
4:9 In
this
the
love
of
God
was
made
manifest
among
us,
that
God
sent
his
only
Son
into
the
world,
so
that
we
might
live
through
him.
4:10 In
this
is
love,
not
that
we
have
loved
God
but
that
he
loved
us
and
sent
his
Son
to
be
the
propitiation
for
our
sins.
4:11 Beloved,
if
God
so
loved
us,
we
also
ought
to
love
one
another.
4:12 No
one
has
ever
seen
God;
if
we
love
one
another,
God
abides
in
us
and
his
love
is
perfected
in
us.
4:13 By
this
we
know
that
we
abide
in
him
and
he
in
us,
because
he
has
given
us
of
his
Spirit.
4:14 And
we
have
seen
and
testify
that
the
Father
has
sent
his
Son
to
be
the
Savior
of
the
world.
4:15 Whoever
confesses
that
Jesus
is
the
Son
of
God,
God
abides
in
him,
and
he
in
God.
4:16 So
we
have
come
to
know
and
to
believe
the
love
that
God
has
for
us.
God
is
love,
and
whoever
abides
in
love
abides
in
God,
and
God
abides
in
him.
4:17 By
this
is
love
perfected
with
us,
so
that
we
may
have
confidence
for
the
day
of
judgment,
because
as
he
is
so
also
are
we
in
this
world.
4:18 There
is
no
fear
in
love,
but
perfect
love
casts
out
fear.
For
fear
has
to
do
with
punishment,
and
whoever
fears
has
not
been
perfected
in
love.
4:19 We
love
because
he
first
loved
us.
4:20 If
anyone
says,
"I
love
God,"
and
hates
his
brother,
he
is
a
liar;
for
he
who
does
not
love
his
brother
whom
he
has
seen
cannot
love
God
whom
he
has
not
seen.
4:21 And
this
commandment
we
have
from
him:
whoever
loves
God
must
also
love
his
brother.