¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of¹ God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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² Hereby ye know the Spirit of¹ God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of² God;

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³ and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of¹ 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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⁴ Ye are of¹ 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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⁵ They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

⁶ We are of¹ God; he that knows² God hears us; he who is not of³ God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of¹ God, and every one that loves has been begotten of² God, and knows³ God.

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⁸ He that loves not has not known¹ God; for² God is love.

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⁹ Herein as to us has been manifested the love of¹ God, that² God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

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¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved¹ God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

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¹¹ Beloved, if¹ God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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¹² No one has seen¹ God at any time: if we love one another,²God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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¹³ Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

¹⁴ And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of¹ God,²God abides in him, and he in³ God.

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¹⁶ And we have known and have believed the love which¹ God has to us.²God is love, and he that abides in love abides in³ God, and⁴ God in him.

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¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ We love because he has first loved us.

²⁰ If any one say, I love¹ God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love² God whom he has not seen?

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²¹ And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves¹ God love also his brother.

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