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, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if 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 confesses 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.

but every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and is now in the world already.

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 you have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you 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 what they say is 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 love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

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

Whoever 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.

In this the love of God was revealed among us, that God sent his one and only 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 love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is 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.

We know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us his Spirit.

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

And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the 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.

If anyone 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)

And we have come to know and to trust in the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides 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.

In this way, love is perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as he is, so also 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, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. Whoever 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;

Whoever says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother is a liar. For if anyone does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

And this is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.