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Open English Translation 1YHN (1JHN) Chapter 4

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4:1 True and false spirits

4Dear 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. 2You 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 3but 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.

4You 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. 5They belong to the world hence they are speaking from the world, and the world is listening to them. 6However 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.

4Beloved, 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.
2By 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,
3and 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.
4You_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.
5They are of the world, because_of this they_are_speaking from the world, and the world is_hearing from_them.
6We 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

7Dear 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. 8Those who don’t love, don’t love God because God is love. 9God’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. 10So 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.

11Dear 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.

13We can know that we are living in him and him in us because he has given to us from his spirit. 14And we have seen and are testifying that the father sent the son—the saviour of the world. 15Anyone who confesses that Yeshua is God’s son, God lives in that person and they live in God. 16We 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. 17This 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. 18There’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.

19We love others because he loved us first. 20Anyone 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. 21So we have this command from Yeshua that anyone who loves God must also love their fellow believers.


7Beloved, 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.
8The one not loving, not knew the god, because the god is love.
9The 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.
10In 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.
11Beloved, if the god loved us thus, we also ought to_be_loving one_another.
12No_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.
13By 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.
14And we have_seen and are_testifying that the father has_sent_out the son, saviour of_the world.
15Whoever wishfully may_confess that Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) is the son of_ the _god, the god is_remaining in him, and he in the god.
16And 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.
17In 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.
18Fear 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.
19We are_loving, because he first loved us.
20If 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.
21And 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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