Chapter 4
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
believe not
Deuteronomy 13.1-5 Proverbs 14.15 Jeremiah 5.31 29.8,9 Matthew 7.15,16 24.4,5 Romans 16.18 2 Peter 2.1
try
Luke 12.57 Acts 17.11 Romans 16.19 1 Corinthians 14.29 1 Thessalonians 5.21 Revelation 2.2
many
2.18 Matthew 24.5,23-26 Mark 13.21 Luke 21.8 Acts 20.29 1 Timothy 4.1 2 Timothy 3.13 2 Peter 2.1 2 John 1.7
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
Every
5.1 John 16.13-15 1 Corinthians 12.3
come
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.
and this
2.18,22 2 Thessalonians 2.7,8 2 John 1.7
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.
are
and have
2.13 5.4 Romans 8.37 Ephesians 6.10,13 Revelation 12.11
greater
13,16 3.24 John 10.28-30 14.17-23 17.23 Romans 8.10,11 1 Corinthians 6.13 2 Corinthians 6.16 Ephesians 3.17
than
5.19 *Gr: ; John 12.31 14.30 16.11 1 Corinthians 2.12 2 Corinthians 4.4 Ephesians 2.2 6.12
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
are
Psalms 17.4 Luke 16.8 John 3.31 7.6,7 8.23 15.19,20 17.14,16 Revelation 12.9
and
Isaiah 30.10,11 Jeremiah 5.31 29.8 Micah 2.11 John 15.19 17.14 2 Timothy 4.3 2 Peter 2.2,3
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.
We are
4 Micah 3.8 Romans 1.1 1 Corinthians 2.12-14 2 Peter 3.2 Jude 1.17
he that knoweth
8 Luke 10.22 John 8.19,45-50 10.27 13.20 18.37 20.21 1 Corinthians 14.37 2 Corinthians 10.7 2 Thessalonians 1.8
Hereby
the spirit of truth
and
Isaiah 29.10 Hosea 4.12 Micah 2.11 Romans 11.8 2 Thessalonians 2.9-11
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
let
love is
8 Deuteronomy 30.6 Galatians 5.22 1 Thessalonians 4.9,10 2 Timothy 1.7 1 Peter 1.22
every
and knoweth
John 17.3 2 Corinthians 4.6 Galatians 4.9
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
knoweth
God is
1.5 Exodus 34.6,7 Psalms 86.5,15 2 Corinthians 13.11 Ephesians 2.4 Hebrews 12.29
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.
was
3.16 John 3.16 Romans 5.8-10 8.32
God sent
10 Luke 4.18 John 5.23 6.29 8.29,42
only
Psalms 2.7 Mark 12.6 John 1.14-18 3.18 Hebrews 1.5
we
5.11 John 6.51,57 10.10,28-30 11.25,26 14.6 Colossians 3.3,4
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Herein
not
19 Deuteronomy 7.7,8 John 15.16 Romans 5.8-10 8.29,30 2 Corinthians 5.19-21 Ephesians 2.4,5 Titus 3.3-5
and sent
2.2 Daniel 9.24 Romans 3.25,26 1 Peter 2.24 3.18
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
3.16,17,23 Matthew 18.32,33 Luke 10.37 John 13.34 15.12,13 2 Corinthians 8.8,9 Ephesians 4.31,32 5.1,2 Colossians 3.13
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
seen
20 Genesis 32.30 Exodus 33.20 Numbers 12.8 John 1.18 1 Timothy 1.17 6.16 Hebrews 11.27
love one
and his
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
15,16 3.24 John 14.20-26 Romans 8.9-17 1 Corinthians 2.12 3.16,17 6.19 Galatians 5.22-25 Ephesians 2.20-22
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
we have
1.1-3 5.9 John 1.14 3.11,32 5.39 15.26,27 Acts 18.5 1 Peter 5.12
the Father
the Saviour
2.1,2 John 1.29 3.16,17 4.42 12.47
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
confess
2 5.1,5 Matthew 10.32 Luke 12.8 Romans 10.9 Philippians 2.11 2 John 1.7
God dwelleth
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.
we
9,10 3.1,16 Psalms 18.1-3 31.19 36.7-9 Isaiah 64.4 1 Corinthians 2.9
God is love
and he
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.
our love
Gr. love with us. made.
we may
the day
Matthew 10.15 11.22,24 12.36 2 Peter 2.9 3.7
as
3.3 Matthew 10.25 John 15.20 Romans 8.29 Hebrews 12.2,3 1 Peter 3.16-18 1 Peter 4.1-3,13,14
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
is no
Luke 1.74,75 Romans 8.15 2 Timothy 1.7 Hebrews 12.28
fear hath
Job 15.21 Psalms 73.19 88.15,16 119.120 James 2.19
He that
We love him, because he first loved us.
10 Luke 7.47 John 3.16 15.16 2 Corinthians 5.14,15 Galatians 5.22 Ephesians 2.3-5 Titus 3.3-5
If 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?
a man
not
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
11 3.11,14,18,23 Leviticus 19.18 Matthew 22.37-39 Mark 12.29-33 Luke 10.37 John 13.34,35 15.12 Romans 12.9,10 13.9,10 Galatians 5.6,14 1 Thessalonians 4.9 1 Peter 3.8 4.8