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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.
2 The Spirit of God (and the spirit of error) learn: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God;
3 and every spirit that does not confess 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 is coming and is now already in the world.

4 Children! you are from God and have overcome them; because He who is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God; knoweth God heareth us; who is not of God heareth not us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved! let us love one another: for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 Who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 The love of God was revealed in us, that God sent into the world his only Son so that we might live through him.
10 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.
eleven Beloved! if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 God no one has ever seen. If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 As we abide in Him and He in us, from the fact that He has given us of his Spirit.

14 And we have seen and testify that the Father sent the Son as Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known the love that God has for us and believed in it. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

17 Love has been perfected in us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because in this world, as He.
18 No fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear hath torment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love Him because He first loved us.
20 Who says, '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?
21 And we have this commandment from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

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