Open Bible Data Home  About  News  OET Key

OETOET-RVOET-LVULTUSTBSBMSBBLBAICNTOEBWEBBEWMBBNETLSVFBVTCNTT4TLEBBBEMoffJPSWymthASVDRAYLTDrbyRVSLTWbstrKJB-1769KJB-1611BshpsGnvaCvdlTNTWyclSR-GNTUHBBrLXXBrTrRelatedTopicsParallelInterlinearReferenceDictionarySearch

AICNTBy Document By Section By ChapterDetails

AICNT FRTMATMARKLUKEYHNACTsROM1 COR2 CORGALEPHPHPCOL1 TH2 TH1 TIM2 TIMTITPHMHEBYAC1 PET2 PET1 YHN2 YHN3 YHNYUDREV

1 YHNC1C2C3C4C5

AICNT by section 1 YHN 4:1

1 YHN 4:1–4:21 ©

1 John 4

4Beloved, 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.

2By this {you know the Spirit of God}:[fn] every spirit that confesses {Jesus Christ}[fn] has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus [[having come in the flesh]][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.

4You 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.

5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

6We 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.

7Beloved, 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,][fn] because God is love.

9In 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.

10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the savior of the world.

15Whoever confesses that Jesus [[Christ]][fn] is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

16And we have come to know and have believed the love that {God}[fn] has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God [abides][fn] in him.

17In this love is perfected with us [[in us]],[fn] so that we may have confidence in the {day}[fn] of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.

18There 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.

20If 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.

21And 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: BYZ reads “the Spirit of God is known.”

4:2, Jesus Christ: Some manuscripts read “Christ Jesus.” C(04).

4:3, having come in the flesh: Included in ℵ(01) BYZ TR.

4:8, The one who does not love does not know God: Absent from ℵ(01).

4:15, Christ: Included in B(03).

4:16, God: 𝔓9 reads “Christ.”

4:16, abides: Absent from A(02) TR.

4:17, in us: Included in ℵ(01).

4:17, day: ℵ(01) reads “love.”

4:19, Therefore: Included in A(02).

4:19, him: Included in BYZ TR ‖ ℵ(01) reads “God.” ‖ Absent from A(02) B(03) NA28 SBLGNT THGNT.

4:20, cannot love God: Some manuscripts read “how can he love God...?” BYZ TR.

1 YHN 4:1–4:21 ©

1 YHNC1C2C3C4C5