| Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. | 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. |
| By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already. | 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. |
| You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. | 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. |
| Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. | Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. |
| He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. | Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
| By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him. | 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. |
| In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. | 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. |
| Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. | No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. |
| By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. | By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. |
| Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. |
| We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. | 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. |
| There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. | 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. |
| We love him, because he first loved us. | We love because he first loved us. |
| If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? | 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. |
| This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother. | And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. |
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