| 4:1 | 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. |
| 4:2 | By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, |
| 4:3 | 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. |
| 4:4 | 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. |
| 4:5 | They are of the world. Therefore they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them. |
| 4:6 | 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. |
| 4:7 | Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| 4:8 | He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. |
| 4:9 | 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. |
| 4:10 | 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. |
| 4:11 | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| 4:12 | 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. |
| 4:13 | By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. |
| 4:14 | And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world. |
| 4:15 | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. |
| 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. |
| 4:17 | Love has been perfected among us in this: 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 casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. |
| 4:19 | We love Him because He first loved us. |
| 4:20 | 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? |
| 4:21 | And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God [must] love his brother also. |
1 John 4 - New King James Version
