1 John 4

1 Beloved, not every spirit do believe but do test the spirits whether of God they are, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Dear ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 By this (you know *NK+O) the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ in [the] flesh having come of God is.

By this the Spirit of God is known: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is of God,

3 and any spirit that not confesses Jesus (Christ in flesh having come *K) from God not is; And this is that of the antichrist which you have heard that is coming and now in the world is already.

and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is not of God; indeed, this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming—actually, it is already in the world right now.

4 you yourselves from God are, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is the [One] in you than the [one] in the world.

Dear children, you are of God and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than the one in the world.

5 They themselves of the world are; because of this from out of the world they speak and the world to them listens.

They are of the world; that is why they speak of the world, and the world listens to them.

6 We ourselves of God are; The [one] knowing God listens to us; He who not is from God not listens to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

We are of God: he who knows God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us—by this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception.

7 Beloved, we may love one another, because love from God is and everyone who is loving from God has been born and knows God;

Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God.

8 The [one] not loving not has known God, because God love is.

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 In this has been revealed the love of God among us, that the Son of Him the one and only has sent God into the world so that we may live through Him.

God's love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him.

10 In this is love, not that we ourselves (have loved *N+kO) God, but that He himself loved us and He sent the Son of Him [as] a propitiation for the sins of us.

In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.

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

Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.

12 God no [one] at any time has seen; if we shall love one another, God in us abides and the love of Him in us perfected is.

No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us.

13 By this we know that in Him we abide and He in us, because from out the Spirit of Him He has given to us.

By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

14 And we ourselves have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son [as] Savior of the world.

Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

15 Who[ever] (maybe *N+kO) shall confess that Jesus (Christ *O) is the Son of God, God in him abides and he in God.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

16 And we ourselves have come to know and we have come to believe the love that has God as to us. God love is, and the [one] abiding in love in God abides, and God in him (abides. *NO)

Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him.

17 In this has been perfected love with us, so that confidence we may have in the day of judgment, that even as He is also we ourselves are in world this.

The love is perfected with us for this: that we may have confidence in the Day of judgment, since just as He is so are we in this world.

18 Fear no there is in love, but perfect love out casts fear, because the fear punishment has; the [one] now fearing not has been perfected in love.

There is no fear in love; rather perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment; so he who fears has not been perfected in love.

19 We ourselves love (him *K) because He himself first loved us.

We love Him because He first loved us.

20 If anyone shall say that I love God and the brother of him may hate, a liar he is; The [one] for not loving the brother of him whom he has seen, God whom not he has seen (not *N+KO) is he able to love;

If anyone says, “I love God,” while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he has not seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen?

21 And this the commandment we have from Him, that the [one] loving God may love also the brother of him.

Indeed, this commandment we have from Him: he who loves God must love his brother also.