[1] Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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[2] Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
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[3] And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
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[4] You are of God, little 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: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.
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[6] We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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[7] Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
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[8] He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
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[9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God 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 loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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[11] Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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[12] No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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[13] Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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[14] And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
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[15] Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
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[16] And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
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[17] Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
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[18] There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
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[19] We love him, because he first loved us.
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[20] If a man say, I love God, and hates 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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[21] And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.
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