Chapter 4
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4: • 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are out from God, because many fake and dishonest prophets have gone out [from us] into the world. • 2 By this you know the Spirit out from God: every spirit that speaks the same word with Jesus Christ having come now inside the flesh [v] is out from God; • 3 and any spirit that does not speak the same word with Jesus Christ having come now inside of flesh [v] is not out from God. And this is that spirit of anti-Christ, which you heard is coming, and is now already inside the present world-cosmos [w]. • 4 You are out from God, little children, and have overcome and defeated them [the false spirits who speak contrary to Christ, who speak “I, not Christ.”], because greater is He who is inside of you than he who is in the present world-cosmos. 5 These [spirits of anti-Christ] are out from the world. For that reason, they speak out from the world, and the world listens to them [x]. We are out from God [y]; the one who actively knows God listens to us. The one who is not out from God does not listen to us. Out from this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of lying and dishonesty. • 7 Beloved, we should actively love one another; because love is always flowing out from God; and everyone who loves out from God has been conceived of God and knows God [z]. 8 The one who does not love has not known God; because • God is love. • 9 Inside of this the love of God has been made visible among us, in that His Son, the One Seed-Kind whom God has sent into the world-cosmos that we might live through Him. • 10 Inside of this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as the propitiation and resolution encompassing our sins [a]. • 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are committed to loving one another in full reciprocity. • 12 No one (b) has seen God [observed Him to know Him] at any time, ever. If we should actively love one another, God lives inside of and among us, and His love is brought to full completion inside of and among us. • 13 By this we know that we dwell inside of Him and He inside of us, out from His Spirit given to us. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has actively sent the Son as Savior of the world-cosmos. • 15 Whoever shall speak the same word, that Jesus Christ is the Son out from God, God dwells inside of him and he dwells inside of God. • 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that is God inside of us. God is love, and the one who dwells inside of love, dwells inside of God, and God dwells inside of him. • 17 Inside of this love, brought to full completion joined together with us, we have the boldness to speak [Christ our life] inside the [to]day of judgment, • that just exactly as He is, so also are we in this present world-cosmos. • 18 There is no fear inside of love, but completed love casts out fear; because fear has torment; moreover, the one who fears [is tormented] has not been made complete inside of love. • 19 We love because He first actively loved us. • 20 If anyone should say, “I love God,” but contemptuously despises his brother, he is fake and dishonest. Indeed, the one who does not love his brother or sister, whom he has seen, is not capable of loving God whom he has not seen. 21 And this is the commandment we have upon Him, that the one who loves God will be loving his brother or sister also. |
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