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1 | Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world. |
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2 | Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: |
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3 | And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and
even now already is it in the world. |
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4 | Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
world. |
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5 | They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and
the world heareth them. |
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6 | We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not
of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error. |
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7 | Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
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8 | He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
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9 | In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him. |
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10 | Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
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11 | Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another. |
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12 | No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
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13 | Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
hath given us of his Spirit. |
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14 | And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son
to be the Saviour of the world. |
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15 | Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God. |
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16 | And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and
God in him. |
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17 | Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this
world. |
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18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
in love. |
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19 | We love him, because he first loved us. |
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20 | If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not seen? |
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21 | And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God
love his brother also. |
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