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4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this {you know the Spirit of God}:[fn] every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess {Jesus}[fn] is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are from God, children, and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
6 We are from God; the one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 In this the love of God was revealed among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus [[Christ]][fn] [[having come in the flesh]][fn] is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.
16 And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God [abides][fn] in him.
17 In this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears has not been perfected in love.
19 [[Therefore]][fn] We love [[him]][fn] because he first loved us.
20 If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, {cannot love God}[fn] whom he has not seen.
21 And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should also love his brother.
4:2, you know the Spirit of God: Later manuscripts read “the Spirit of God is known.” BYZ
4:3, Jesus: Later manuscripts read “that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.”
4:15, Christ: Some manuscripts include. B(03) BYZ TR
4:15, having come in the flesh: Later manuscripts add. BYZ TR
4:16, abides: Absent from some manuscripts. TR
4:19, therefore: Some manuscripts include. 𝔓74 A(02)
4:19, him: Later manuscripts add. BYZ TR ‖ Some manuscripts include “God.” ℵ(01) ‖ Absent from A(02) B(03) NA28 SBLGNT THGNT
4:20, cannot love God: Later manuscripts read “how can he love God...?” BYZ TR