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    1 John · 21 verses

    1 John 4

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    Love of the invisible God is tested by the brother standing visibly before the speaker: hatred makes the claim a lie.

    The spirits are put on trialvv. 1–6

    The spirits do not receive automatic entry; they are to be tested by what they confess about Jesus Christ come in the flesh. The antichrist has an oddly untidy timetable: he is said to be coming and already in the world. The little children are from God and have overcome such spirits, while the world listens to those who speak from the world’s perspective.

    The unseen God and the visible brothervv. 7–21

    Love comes from God, and its great disclosure is that God sent His one and only Son into the world. No one has seen God, yet God remains in those who love one another, with love perfected among them. The movement ends at the brother in plain sight: a person who says, “I love God,” while hating that brother is called a liar, and love of God is joined to love of the brother as well.

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    1. 1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

    2. 1 John 4:2By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

    3. 1 John 4:3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

    4. 1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

    5. 1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

    6. 1 John 4:6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

    7. 1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8. 1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9. 1 John 4:9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

    10. 1 John 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11. 1 John 4:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12. 1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13. 1 John 4:13By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

    14. 1 John 4:14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

    15. 1 John 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

    16. 1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

    17. 1 John 4:17In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.

    18. 1 John 4:18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

    19. 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.

    20. 1 John 4:20If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

    21. 1 John 4:21And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

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    • 182 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
    • 4Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
    • 41 John 5:4because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
    • 18Romans 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
    • 4Romans 8:37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
    • 181 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
    • 41 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
    • 191 John 4:10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
    • 41 Corinthians 2:12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
    • 11 Thessalonians 5:21but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
    • 4Romans 8:10–11But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
    • 18Luke 1:74–75deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
    • 4Ephesians 6:12–13For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
    • 9John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
    • 4Ephesians 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
    • 18Hebrews 12:28Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

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