1 Juan 4
1 Amados, no creáis a todo espíritu; sino probád los espíritus si son de Dios. Porque muchos falsos profetas son salidos en el mundo.
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 En esto se conoce el Espíritu de Dios: Todo espíritu que confiesa que Jesu Cristo es venido en carne, es de Dios;
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 Y todo espíritu que no confiesa que Jesu Cristo es venido en carne, no es de Dios; y este tal espíritu es espíritu del anticristo, del cual vosotros habéis oído que ha de venir, y que ahora ya está en el mundo.
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 Hijitos, vosotros sois de Dios, y los habéis vencido; porque el que en vosotros está, es mayor que el que está en el mundo.
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 Ellos son del mundo, por eso hablan del mundo, y el mundo los oye.
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 Nosotros somos de Dios: el que conoce a Dios, es nuestro escuchador: el que no es de Dios, no nos presta oídos. Por esto conocemos el espíritu de verdad, y el espíritu de error.
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 Carísimos, amémonos unos a otros; porque el amor es de Dios. Y cualquiera que ama, es nacido de Dios, y conoce a Dios.
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 El que no ama, no conoce a Dios; porque Dios es amor.
He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
9 En esto se mostró el amor de Dios en nosotros, en que Dios envió su Hijo unigénito al mundo, para que vivamos por él.
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 En esto consiste el amor, no que nosotros hayamos amado a Dios, sino que él nos amó a nosotros, y envió a su Hijo para ser propiciación por nuestros pecados.
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 Amados, si Dios nos ha así amado, debemos también nosotros amarnos los unos a los otros.
Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 Ninguno vio jamás a Dios. Si nos amamos los unos a los otros, Dios está en nosotros, y su amor es perfecto en nosotros.
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 En esto conocemos que moramos en él, y él en nosotros, en que nos ha dado de su Espíritu.
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 Y nosotros hemos visto, y testificamos que el Padre ha enviado a su Hijo para ser Salvador del mundo.
And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Cualquiera que confesare que Jesús es el Hijo de Dios, Dios está en él, y él en Dios.
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God.
16 Y nosotros hemos conocido, y creído el amor que Dios tiene por nosotros. Dios es amor; y el que mora en amor mora en Dios, y Dios en él.
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 En esto es perfecto el amor con nosotros, para que tengamos confianza en el día del juicio, que cual él es, tales somos nosotros en este mundo.
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 En el amor no hay temor; mas el perfecto amor echa fuera el temor; porque el temor tiene castigo. De donde el que teme, no es perfecto en el amor.
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 Nosotros le amamos a él, porque él primero nos amó.
We love because God first loved us.
20 Si alguno dice: Yo amo a Dios, y aborrece a su hermano, es mentiroso. Porque el que no ama a su hermano, al cual ha visto, ¿cómo puede amar a Dios, que no ha visto?
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 Y nosotros tenemos este mandamiento de él: Que el que ama a Dios, ame también a su hermano.
And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.
