0 SAB 1 John 4

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 2:22

Trivia: According to 1 John 5:16, what sin should you not ask God to forgive?

1 John

CHAPTER 4

Don't believe every spirit
(there are a lot of antichrists out there)
4:1-6

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.

Don't believe every spirit. [1]

Because there're many false prophets out there.

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

Every spirit that says

Jesus has come in the flesh is of God. [2]

3 And every spirit that confesseth not 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 should come; and even now already is it in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that 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: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

A spirit that says Jesus hasn't come in the flesh

is not of God, but is the spirit of antichrist, [3]

which, as you've heard, is already in the world.

God is love
4:7-21

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Love each other.

Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Because God is love. [4]

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

God sent his only begotten son [5]

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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

to be a sacrifice for our sins.

12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby know we that we dwell 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 sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

No one has ever seen God, [6]

but if we love one another, then God lives in us.

15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

God lives in those who say that Jesus is the Son of God,

and they live in God.

16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

God is love,

and those who live in love live in God,

and God lives in them.

18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

19 We love him, because he first loved us.

There's no fear in love.

Those who love have no fear.

Whoever fears hasn't been made perfect in love. [7]

20If a man say, 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?

If you say, "I love God" but hate your neighbor,

you are a liar.

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

If you love God, you will love your neighbor too. [8]

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