1 Yuhana 4

1 Kinnayi, na iwa yinin ni yeme fip ba, bara nanin dumuzunan koyeme nfip inin yene sa min Kutelleri, bara among anan kinu madk gbardan inani malu nuzu udu nanya nye.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world.

2 Kikanere ima yinu Nfip Kutelle - nfip mona miyina Yesu Kristi na dak nanya kidawo minare min Kutelle.

The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God,

3 Nin vat nfip mona miyinna nin Yesu ba na min Kutelleri ba. Monere infip ni vira Kristi, mona ina malin lanzu adin chinu, amin di nanya inye nene.

and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.

4 Anun un Kutelleri, nono ni nibebene, inamalin katu likara mine, bara ame ulena adi nanya bit akatin likara inle na adi nanya inye.

As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

5 Inin anan inyeri di, bara nani ilemon na ibele in inyeri di, uye din latiszu nanin.

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

6 Arik anan Kutelleri. Ulena yiru Kutelle ama latiszu nari. Bara nanere tima yinu infip min kidegen nin infip min kinu.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

7 Kinnayi, suu kogha ku ukauna, bara Kutelle ukaunari, vat ulena adini ukauna ina maru ghe kiti Kutelleri ani yiru Kutelle.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

8 Unit ulena adin suu ukauna ba na ayiru Kutelle ba, bara Kutelle ukaunari.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

9 Nani ukauna Kutellere ana durso nari, Kutelle na tuu gono me kirum nanya inye ti nan se ulau nuzu me.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

10 Ai ukaunere ule, na arike ti din kauna Kutelle, amere na din suu bit, amini na tuu gono me bara alapi bit.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

11 Knnayi, andi Kutelle din suu bit kang, ariki wang tisu usuu nwana bit.

Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 Na umomg nayene kutelle ba, andi tidinin suu li nwana bit Kutelle ma soo nanya bite nin usuu me mayitu nanya bit.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

13 Bara nanere tiyino tidi nanya me ame nanya bit, bara ana ni nari Nfip mi lau.

We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

14 Tina yene tinani ta suu ushaida ucife na tuu gone ayita unan tucu inye.

And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15 Vat ulena ayina Yesu gono Kutelleri, Kutelle di nanya me ame ma di nanya Kutelle.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God.

16 Tiyiru nin yinu sauyenu usuu me na Kutelle dimong nanya bi. Kutelle ukaunari, ulena adini ukauna ama suo nanya me, Kutelle ma suu nanya me.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

17 Ulel usuware mali tii likara nanya bit, tinan yita nikibinai salin feu mbungme nliri mawucuwuce, bara na adi, nanere tidi nanya nye.

Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world.

18 Na ifeu di kiti nsuu ba. Bara usuu likar din kuo infeu piit, bara infeu di kusarin kpizu. Bara ulena adinin infeu na adini likara kitin suu ba.

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

19 Tidinin suu bara Kutelle na chizu ussu bite.

We love because God first loved us.

20 Andi umong woro, “Adini suu Kutelle” amine nari gwaname, ame unan kinuwari. Bara ulana adinin suu gwana me ba naadin yejugye, iyizari ama yitu nin suu Kutelle ulena asa tabina uyenugye ba.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

21 Tone tinare tidokoki tona tina se kitime: Ulena adinin suu Kutelle doleri ayita nin suu gwana me.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.