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1 John 3:22-4:6
Good News Translation
1 John 3:22-4:6
Good News Translation
22 We receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 23 (A)What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us. 24 Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.
The True Spirit and the False Spirit
4 My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere. 2 This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God. 3 But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.
4 But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world. 5 Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world. 6 But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 3:22-4:6
New International Version
1 John 3:22-4:6
New International Version
22 and receive from him anything we ask,(A) because we keep his commands(B) and do what pleases him.(C) 23 And this is his command: to believe(D) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,(E) and to love one another as he commanded us.(F) 24 The one who keeps God’s commands(G) lives in him,(H) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.(I)
On Denying the Incarnation
4 Dear friends,(J) do not believe every spirit,(K) but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.(L) 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh(M) is from God,(N) 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,(O) which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(P)
4 You, dear children,(Q) are from God and have overcome them,(R) because the one who is in you(S) is greater than the one who is in the world.(T) 5 They are from the world(U) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.(V) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(W) and the spirit of falsehood.(X)
Footnotes
- 1 John 4:6 Or spirit
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