1 John 4
Good News Translation
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.
God Is Love
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him. 10 This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
11 Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another. 12 (A)No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.
13 We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us. 16 And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us.
God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them. 17 Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ's. 18 There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.
19 We love because God first loved us. 20 If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen. 21 The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.
1 João 4
Almeida Revista e Corrigida 2009
Os falsos profetas
4 Amados, não creiais em todo espírito, mas provai se os espíritos são de Deus, porque já muitos falsos profetas se têm levantado no mundo. 2 Nisto conhecereis o Espírito de Deus: todo espírito que confessa que Jesus Cristo veio em carne é de Deus; 3 e todo espírito que não confessa que Jesus Cristo veio em carne não é de Deus; mas este é o espírito do anticristo, do qual já ouvistes que há de vir, e eis que está já no mundo. 4 Filhinhos, sois de Deus e já os tendes vencido, porque maior é o que está em vós do que o que está no mundo. 5 Do mundo são; por isso, falam do mundo, e o mundo os ouve. 6 Nós somos de Deus; aquele que conhece a Deus ouve-nos; aquele que não é de Deus não nos ouve. Nisto conhecemos nós o espírito da verdade e o espírito do erro.
Deus é amor. Devemos amar a Deus e a nossos irmãos
7 Amados, amemo-nos uns aos outros, porque o amor é de Deus; e qualquer que ama é nascido de Deus e conhece a Deus. 8 Aquele que não ama não conhece a Deus, porque Deus é amor. 9 Nisto se manifestou o amor de Deus para conosco: que Deus enviou seu Filho unigênito ao mundo, para que por ele vivamos. 10 Nisto está o amor: não em que nós tenhamos amado a Deus, mas em que ele nos amou e enviou seu Filho para propiciação pelos nossos pecados. 11 Amados, se Deus assim nos amou, também nós devemos amar uns aos outros. 12 Ninguém jamais viu a Deus; se nós amamos uns aos outros, Deus está em nós, e em nós é perfeito o seu amor.
13 Nisto conhecemos que estamos nele, e ele em nós, pois que nos deu do seu Espírito, 14 e vimos, e testificamos que o Pai enviou seu Filho para Salvador do mundo. 15 Qualquer que confessar que Jesus é o Filho de Deus, Deus está nele e ele em Deus. 16 E nós conhecemos e cremos no amor que Deus nos tem. Deus é amor e quem está em amor está em Deus, e Deus, nele. 17 Nisto é perfeito o amor para conosco, para que no Dia do Juízo tenhamos confiança; porque, qual ele é, somos nós também neste mundo. 18 No amor, não há temor; antes, o perfeito amor lança fora o temor; porque o temor tem consigo a pena, e o que teme não é perfeito em amor. 19 Nós o amamos porque ele nos amou primeiro. 20 Se alguém diz: Eu amo a Deus e aborrece a seu irmão, é mentiroso. Pois quem não ama seu irmão, ao qual viu, como pode amar a Deus, a quem não viu? 21 E dele temos este mandamento: que quem ama a Deus, ame também seu irmão.
1 John 4
King James Version
4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little 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: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love 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 love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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