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

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

³ And every spirit that doth not acknowledge Jesus, is not of God; and this is that spirit of Antichrist, of which ye have heard that it is to come, and even now it is already in the world.

⁴ Ye are of God, my 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 us not. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God, and every one that loveth hath been born of God, and knoweth God;

⁸ he that loveth not hath not known God; for God is love.

⁹ In this was manifested the love of God in regard to us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through him.

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

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

¹² No one hath ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

¹³ Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

¹⁴ And we have seen and bear witness, that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹⁵ Whoever acknowledgeth that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God hath in regard to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

¹⁷ Herein hath love been perfected with us, that we have confidence in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹ We love, because he first loved us.

²⁰ If any one saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?

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