 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone
out into the world.
 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of
antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even
now already is it in the world.
 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
world.
 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world,
and the world heareth them.
 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is
not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.
 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
 4:9  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.
 4:10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved
us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
 4:11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another.
 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one
another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
 4:13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us,
because he hath given us of his Spirit.
 4:14  And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the
Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
 4:15  Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to
us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.
 4:17  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.
 4:18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out
fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made
perfect in love.
 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us.
 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is
a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
 4:21  And this commandment have we from him, That he who
loveth God love his brother also.
