1 John 4 - ESV

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see… 1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1 trust Spirit prophecy
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 John 4:2-3 Spirit Jesus acknowledging

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 salvation overcoming almighty
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 love neighbor friendship
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8 love God
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9 love Jesus life
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10 sin love Savior
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11 love God community
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 love God neighbor
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:13 God Spirit nearness
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15 Jesus life acknowledging
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:16 trust love God
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:18 love fear punishment
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 love God
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:20 love God family
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:21 law love friendship