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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see 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.

This is how you know God’s Spirit: every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from 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.

Every spirit that fails to acknowledge Jesus isn’t from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.

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.

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is 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 from the world, therefore they talk like they are from 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 from God. Whoever knows God listens to us. Whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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;

Beloved, let us sincerely love one another, for sincere love is from God, and everyone who sincerely loves is born of God and knows God.

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

The one who doesn’t sincerely love doesn’t know God, for God is sincere 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.

The sincere love of God was manifested in us by this, that God has sent His only born Son into the world so 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 sincere love: not that we sincerely loved God, but that He sincerely loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

Beloved, if God sincerely loved us like this, we ought to sincerely love one another, too.

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 seen God, but if we sincerely love one another, God lives in us and His sincere love is made complete 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.

This is how we know that we live 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.

We have seen and 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.

God lives in whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, and that person lives 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)

We have come to know and have believed the sincere love which God has for us. God is sincere love. One who lives in sincere love lives in God, and God lives 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.

Sincere love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have confident boldness on the judgment day, because 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 sincere love, but perfect, sincere love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment. But whoever fears has not been made perfect in sincere love.

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

We sincerely love, because He first sincerely 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 someone says, “I sincerely love God,” and hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. If someone doesn’t sincerely love a brother or sister he has seen, how can he sincerely love God whom he hasn’t seen?

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

This commandment we have from Him: that whoever sincerely loves God must sincerely love his brothers and sisters, too.