Bible Verses about '1 John 4:18'
- In love there is no fear;
indeed, perfect love casts out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment,
and whoever fears
has not yet achieved perfection in love. - Beloved,
do not trust every spirit,
but test the spirits
to see whether they are from God.
For many false prophets
have gone out into the world. - This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God:
every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is from God,
and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus
is not from God.
This is the spirit of the Antichrist,
about whose coming you have been told,
and that it is already in the world. - Dear children,
you are from God
and you have conquered them,
for the one who is in you is greater
than the one who is in the world. - Beloved,
let us love one another,
because love is from God.
Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. - Whoever does not love
does not know God,
because God is love. - God’s love was revealed to us in this way:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life through him. - This is what love is:
not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. - Beloved,
since God loved us so much,
we should love one another. - No one has ever seen God,
but if we love one another,
God abides in us,
and his love is made complete in us. - This is how we can be certain
that we abide in him
and that he abides in us:
he has given us a share in his Spirit. - God abides in anyone who acknowledges
that Jesus is the Son of God,
and that person abides in God. - We have come to know
and to believe in
the love that God has for us.
God is love,
and whoever abides in love
abides in God,
and God in him. - Therefore, we love because he first loved us.
- If someone says, “I love God,”
but at the same time hates his brother,
he is a liar.
For whoever does not love the brother
whom he has seen
cannot love God whom he has not seen. - This is the commandment
we have received from him:
whoever loves God
must also love his brother. - For everyone born of God
conquers the world.
And the victory that conquers the world
is our faith. - Who indeed conquers the world
except the one who believes
that Jesus is the Son of God? - And this is the testimony:
God gave us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son. - Whoever possesses the Son
possesses life;
whoever does not possess the Son of God
does not possess life. - I write these things to you
who believe in the name of the Son of God
so that you may know
that you have eternal life. - And thus we can have confidence in him
that if we ask anything
that is in accordance with his will,
he hears us. - And if we know that he hears us
in regard to whatever we ask him,
we may be sure
that all we ask of him will be ours. - We also know
that the Son of God has come
and given us understanding
so that we can know the one who is true.
And we are in the one who is true,
since we are in his Son Jesus Christ.
He is the true God and eternal life. - Dear children,
keep away from idols. - This is the message
that we have heard from him
and that we declare to you:
God is light,
and there is no darkness at all in him. - If we claim that we have fellowship with him
while we continue to live in darkness,
we are lying and do not live in the truth. - However, if we live in the light
as he himself is in the light,
then we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus his Son
purifies us from all sin. - However, if we confess our sins,
he who is faithful and just
will forgive our sins
and cleanse us from all wrongdoing. - He is himself the sacrifice for our sins—
and not only for our sins
but also for the sins of the whole world. - Do not love the world
or what is in the world.
If anyone does love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him. - For everything that is in the world—
the concupiscence of the flesh,
the concupiscence of the eyes,
and the pride of life—
comes not from the Father
but from the world. - And the world with all its enticements
is passing away,
but whoever does the will of God
abides forever. - Whoever denies the Son
does not have the Father,
but whoever acknowledges the Son
has the Father also. - Let what you heard from the beginning
remain in you.
If what you heard from the beginning
remains in you,
then you will remain in the Son
and in the Father. - But as for you,
the anointing you received from him
remains in you,
and therefore you do not need anyone
to teach you.
This same anointing
teaches you everything
and is true and not false,
so abide in him just as he taught you. - And now, dear children,
abide in him,
so that when he appears
we may have confidence
and not be put to shame by him
at his coming. - See what love
the Father has bestowed on us,
enabling us to be called the children of God,
and that is what we are.
If the world does not recognize us,
that is because it did not know him. - Beloved,
we are God’s children now.
What we shall be
has not yet been revealed.
However, we do know that when he appears
we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he really is.
Everyone who has this hope in him
keeps himself pure,
just as he is pure. - Everyone who sins breaks the law,
for sin is lawlessness. - Everyone who sins comes from the devil,
for the devil has been a sinner
from the very beginning.
The Son of God appeared for this very purpose:
to destroy the work of the devil. - For from the beginning
you have heard the message
that we should love one another. - This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren. - If anyone is rich in worldly possessions
and sees a brother in need
but refuses to open his heart,
how can the love of God abide in him? - Dear children,
let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth. - Beloved,
if our hearts do not condemn us,
we can approach God with confidence
and receive from him whatever we ask,
because we obey his commandments
and do whatever is pleasing to him. - All those who keep his commandments abide in him,
and he abides in them.
And the proof that he abides in us
is the Spirit that he has given us.
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