1 John 3:19-4:6

Darby Translation

¹⁹ And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him—

²⁰ that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,

²² and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and practise the things which are pleasing in his sight.

²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he has given us commandment.

²⁴ And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

² Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

³ and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

⁴ *Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

⁵ *They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

⁶ *We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.