1 John 4:4-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

⁵ They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

⁶ We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁷ Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

⁸ He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

⁹ By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

¹⁰ In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

¹¹ My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.