1John:4

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* Beloved , believe not every spirit , (o . pneuma ) but try the spirits (o . pneuma ) whether they are of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world . * Hereby know all of you the Spirit (o . pneuma ) of God : Every spirit (o . pneuma ) that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God : * And every spirit (o . pneuma ) that confesses not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist , whereof all of you have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world . * All of you are of God , little children , and have overcome them : because greater is he that is in you , than he that is in the world . * They are of the world : therefore speak they of the world , and the world hears them . * We are of God : he that knows God hears us ; he that is not of God hears not us . Hereby know we the spirit (o . pneuma ) of truth , and the spirit (o . pneuma ) of error . * Beloved , let us love one another : for love (o . agape ) is of God ; and every one that loves is born of God , and knows God . * He that loves not knows not God ; for God is love . (o . agape ) * In this was manifested the love (o . agape ) of God toward us , because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world , that we might live through him . * Herein is love , (o . agape ) not that we loved God , but that he loved us , and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins . * Beloved , if God so loved us , we ought also to love one another . * No man has seen God at any time . If we love one another , God dwells in us , and his love (o . agape ) is perfected in us . * Hereby know we that we dwell in him , and he in us , because he has given us of his Spirit . (o . pneuma ) * And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world . * Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God , God dwells in him , and he in God . * And we have known and believed the love (o . agape ) that God has to us . God is love ; (o . agape ) and he that dwells in love (o . agape ) dwells in God , and God in him . * Herein is our love (o . agape ) made perfect , that we may have boldness in the day of judgment : because as he is , so are we in this world . * There is no fear in love ; (o . agape ) but perfect love (o . agape ) casts out fear : because fear has torment . He that fears is not made perfect in love . (o . agape ) * We love him , because he first loved us . * If a man say , I love God , and hates his brother , he is a liar : for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen , how can he love God whom he has not seen ? * And this commandment have we from him , That he who loves God love his brother also .

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