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On Denying the Incarnation

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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Testing the Spirits

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

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Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

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but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

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

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You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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

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They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

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*They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirita of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

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

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God’s Love and Ours

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

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Love Comes from God

Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

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Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

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This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

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This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

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No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

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Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

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And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

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And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

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If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

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Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

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And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

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And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

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This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.

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Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.

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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

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We love because he first loved us.

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*We* love because *he* has first loved us.

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Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

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If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

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And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

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1 John 4

1 John 4