If
someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who
does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not
seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love
his brother also.
Beloved,
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the
Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist,
which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
You
are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you
is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they
speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows
God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit
of truth and the spirit of error.
Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of
God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In
this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love,
not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another.
No
one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His
love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in
us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him
because He first loved us.
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