1John:4

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* My dear brothers , do not trust every spirit . But test the spirits to see if they belong to God . There are many prophets who are not true who have gone out into the world . * Here is how you can know the Spirit of God . Every spirit that believes that Jesus Christ has come in the body of a man is from God . * And every spirit that does not say this about Jesus , does not belong to God . That is the spirit of the one who is against Christ . You have heard that he is coming . And now he is already in the world . * My children , you belong to God . You have won the victory over those prophets who are not true . You have won because the Spirit that is in you is stronger than the spirit that is in the world . * Those prophets belong to the world . That is why they teach about things in the world . And that is why the people of the world listen to them . * But we belong to God . Anyone who knows God listens to us . Anyone who does not belong to God does not listen to us . This is how we know if a spirit is true or not true . * My dear brothers , we must love one another , because love comes from God . Everyone who loves others is Gods child and he knows God . * But anyone who does not love others does not know God , because God is love . * This is how God showed his love for us . He sent his only Son into the world to give us life . * This is love ! We did not love God , but he loved us . And he sent his Son to be the sacrifice to pay for the wrong things we have done . * My dear brothers , if God loved us so much , we must love one another also . * No man has ever seen God . But God lives in us if we love one another . And in loving one another , his love is made perfect . * He has given us of his own Spirit . That is how we know that we are in him and he is in us . * And we have seen and we are telling you that the Father sent his Son to save the people in the world . * If anyone says , Jesus is the Son of God , God is in him and he is in God . * We know and we believe that God loves us . God is love . And anyone who loves others is in God and God is in him . * That is why we love each other very much . Then we will not be afraid on the day when people are judged . We are like Christ in this world . * Where Gods love is , there is no fear . Gods perfect love takes away fear . It is punishment that makes a person fear . Anyone who has fear does not have perfect love . * We love others because God first loved us . * If anyone says , I love God ,and he hates his brother , he is telling a lie . If he does not love his brother whom he has seen , how can he love God whom he has not seen ? * God gave us this law . The person who loves God must love his brother also .

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