41Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are ofGod; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.+2Hereby ye know the Spirit ofGod: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is ofGod;+3and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not ofGod: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.+4Ye are ofGod, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.+5They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.+6We are ofGod; he that knowsGod hears us; he who is not ofGod does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.+
Love Comes from God
7Beloved, let us love one another; because love is ofGod, and every one that loves has been begotten ofGod, and knowsGod.+8He that loves not has not knownGod; forGod is love.+9Herein as to us has been manifested the love ofGod, thatGod has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.+10Herein is love, not that we lovedGod, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.+11Beloved, ifGod has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.+12No one has seenGod at any time: if we love one another,God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.+13Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.+14And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.+15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son ofGod,God abides in him, and he inGod.+16And we have known and have believed the love whichGod has to us.God is love, and he that abides in love abides inGod, andGod in him.+17Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.+18There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.+19We love because he has first loved us.+20If any one say, I loveGod, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he loveGod whom he has not seen?+21And this commandment have we from him, That he that lovesGod love also his brother.+
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