CHAP. IV.
What spirits are of God, and
what not. We must love
one another, because God
has loved us.
1 Dearly beloved, believe
not every spirit,
but note try the spirits whether
they be of God: because many
false prophets are gone
out into the world.
2 By this is the spirit of
God known: note every spirit,
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which confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh, is of God:
3 And every spirit, note that
dissolveth Jesus, is not of
God and this is Antichrist,
of whom you have heard that
he cometh, and note he is now
already in the world.
4 You are of God, little
children, and have overcome
him, because greater is he
that is in you, than he that
is in the world.
5 They are of the world:
therefore of the world they
speak, and the world heareth
them.
6 We are of God. He
that knoweth God, heareth
us: He that is not of God,
heareth us not: By this we
know the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error.
7 Dearly beloved, let us
love one another: for charity
is of God. And every one,
that loveth, is born of God,
and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not,
knoweth not God: for God
is charity.
9 By this hath the charity
of God appeared towards us,
because God hath sent his only
begotten Son into the world,
that we may live by him.
10 In this is charity: not
as though we had loved God,
but because he first loved us,
and sent his Son to be a propitiation
for our sins.
11 My dearest, if God
hath so loved us; we also
ought to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God
at any time. If we love one
another, God abideth in us,
and his charity is perfected in
us.
13 In this we know that
we abide in him, and he in
us; because he hath given us
of his spirit:
14 And we have seen, and
do testify, that the Father
hath sent his Son to be the
Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess
that Jesus is the Son of
God, God abideth in him,
and he in God.
16 And we have known,
and have believed the charity,
which God hath to us.
God is charity; and he that
abideth in charity, abideth in
God, and God in him.
17 In this is the charity
of God perfected with us,
that we may have confidence
in the day of judgment: because
as he is, we also are in
this world.
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18 noteFear is not in charity:
but perfect charity casteth
out fear; because fear hath
pain. And he that feareth, is
not perfected in charity.
19 Let us therefore love
God, because God first hath
loved us.
20 If any man say, I love
God, and hateth his brother;
he is a liar. For he that
loveth not his brother, whom
he seeth, how can he love
God, whom he seeth not?
21 And this commandment
we have from God, that he,
who loveth God, love also
his brother.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
