OET 1YHN chapter 4

4 Dear friends, don’t trust every spirit, but test them to determine whether or not it’s from God, because many false prophets go around the world. 2 You all can find out whether or not a spirit is from God: If the spirit confesses that Yeshua the messiah has come as a person, then it’s from God 3 but if the spirit won’t confess Yeshua, then it’s not from God but rather it’s the spirit of the false messiah, whom you’ve heard is coming, and is now already in the world.

4 You new believers are in God and you have defeated the false prophets, because the one in you is more powerful than the one in the world. 5 They belong to the world hence they are speaking from the world, and the world is listening to them. 6 However we belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, but anyone who doesn’t belong to God can’t accept what we’re saying. That’s how we can distinguish the spirit of truth from deceptive spirits.

4 Beloved, not be _believing in _every spirit, but be _approving the spirits, whether it _is of the god, because many false _prophets have _come _out into the world.
2 By this you _all _are _knowing the spirit of_ the _god:
every spirit that is _confessing Yaʸsous chosen _one /messiah having _come in the_flesh, is of the god, 3 and every spirit that is_ not _confessing the Yaʸsous, is not of the god.
And this is the spirit of _the anti-messiah, which you _all _have _heard that it _is _coming, and now is already in the world.
4 You _all are of the god, little _children, and you _all _have _overcome them, because greater is the one in you _all, than the one in the world.
5 They are of the world, because _of this they _are _speaking from the world, and the world is _hearing from _them.
6 We are of the god.
The one knowing the god, is _hearing from _us, whoever is not of the god, is_ not _hearing from _us.
By this we _are _knowing the spirit of_ the _truth and the spirit of_ the _deception.

4:7 Loving God means loving others

7 Dear friends, we need to be loving each other, because love is from God and everyone who truly loves has been reborn into God and knows God. 8 Those who don’t love, don’t love God because God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed to us when he sent his only son to be born into the world so that we can live through him. 10 So this is real love, not us loving God, but God loving us and sending his son to be the sacrifice to clear us of the sentence from our sins.

11 Dear friends, if God loves us like that, we ought to be loving each other. 12 [ref]No one has ever seen God, but when we are loving each other then God is living in us, and his love is being perfected in us.

13 We can know that we are living in him and him in us because he has given to us from his spirit. 14 And we have seen and are testifying that the father sent the son—the saviour of the world. 15 Anyone who confesses that Yeshua is God’s son, God lives in that person and they live in God. 16 We have known and experienced the love that God has in us.

God is love, and anyone who lives in love, lives in God, and God lives in them. 17 This is how love will be perfected in us so that we can live with confidence about the coming judgement day: we live like Yeshua in this world. 18 There’s no fear in love, but rather perfect love drives away fear, because our fear is that of being punished but the one fearing has not been perfected in love.

19 We love others because he loved us first. 20 Anyone who says that they are loving God but hates a fellow believer, that person is liar because if someone can’t love a fellow believer that they’ve seen, they can’t love God who they’ve never seen. 21 So we have this command from Yeshua that anyone who loves God must also love their fellow believers.

4:12: Jn 1:18.

7 Beloved, we _may _be _loving one _another, because the love is from the god, and everyone which loving has _been _born from the god, and is _knowing the god.
8 The one not loving, not knew the god, because the god is love.
9 The love of_ the _god was _revealed among us in this, that the god has _sent _out the son of _him, the only _begotten, into the world in _order _that we _may _live through him.
10 In this is the love, not that we have _loved the god, but that he loved us, and sent _out the son of _him, a_atonement for the sins of _us.
11 Beloved, if the god loved us thus, we also ought to _be _loving one _another.
12 No _one has_ ever _seen god, if we _may _be _loving one _another, the god is _remaining in us, and the love of _him is having _been _perfected in us.
13 By this we _are _knowing, that we _are _remaining in him, and he in us, because he _has _given to _us from the spirit of _him.
14 And we have _seen and are _testifying that the father has _sent _out the son, saviour of _the world.
15 Whoever wishfully may _confess that Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) is the son of_ the _god, the god is _remaining in him, and he in the god.
16 And we have _known and have _believed the love that god is _having the in us.
The god is love, and the one remaining in the love, is _remaining in the god, and the god is _remaining in him.
17 In this the love has _been _perfected with us, in _order _that we _may _be _having confidence in the day of_ the _judgment, because as that one is, we also are in the this world.
18 Fear is not in the love, but the perfect love is _throwing out the fear, because the fear is _having punishment, and the one fearing, has_ not _been _perfected in the love.
19 We are _loving, because he first loved us.
20 If anyone may _say, that I _am _loving the god, and may _be _hating the brother of _him, is a_liar, because/for the one not loving the brother of _him, whom he _has _seen, is_ not _able to _be _loving the god, whom he _has_ not _seen.
21 And we _are _having this the command from him, that the one loving the god, may_ also _be _loving the brother of _him.

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