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1 John 4
GOD’S WORD Translation

Test People Who Say They Have God’s Spirit

4 Dear friends, don’t believe all people who say that they have the Spirit. Instead, test them. See whether the spirit they have is from God, because there are many false prophets in the world. 2 This is how you can recognize God’s Spirit: Every person who declares that Jesus Christ has come as a human has the Spirit that is from God. 3 But every person who doesn’t declare that Jesus Christ has come as a human has a spirit that isn’t from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you have heard is coming. That spirit is already in the world.

4 Dear children, you belong to God. So you have won the victory over these people, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 These people belong to the world. That’s why they speak the thoughts of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We belong to God. The person who knows God listens to us. Whoever doesn’t belong to God doesn’t listen to us. That’s how we can tell the Spirit of truth from the spirit of lies.

God’s Love Lives in His People

7 Dear friends, we must love each other because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. 8 The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. 9 God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him. 10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if this is the way God loved us, we must also love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he lives in us because he has given us his Spirit.

14 We have seen and testify to the fact that the Father sent his Son as the Savior of the world. 15 God lives in those who declare that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God. 16 We have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God’s love live in God, and God lives in them.

17 God’s love has reached its goal in us. So we look ahead with confidence to the day of judgment. While we are in this world, we are exactly like him ⌞with regard to love⌟. 18 No fear exists where his love is. Rather, perfect love gets rid of fear, because fear involves punishment. The person who lives in fear doesn’t have perfect love.

19 We love because God loved us first. 20 Whoever says, “I love God,” but hates another believer is a liar. People who don’t love other believers, whom they have seen, can’t love God, whom they have not seen. 21 Christ has given us this commandment: The person who loves God must also love other believers.

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神的灵和敌基督的灵

4 各位蒙爱的人哪，你们不要每一个灵都相信，而要分辨这些灵是否出于神，因为有许多假先知已经在世上出现了。

2 你们从这一点就认出神的灵：任何灵承认耶稣基督是以肉身而来的[a]，这灵就是出于神； 3 任何灵不承认耶稣[b]的，这灵就不是出于神，而是那敌基督者的灵。你们听说过这灵要来，而它现在已经在世上了。

4 孩子们哪，你们属于神，而且你们已经胜过了假先知们[c]，因为那在你们里面的，比那在世界上的更大。 5 他们属于世界，所以他们说的属于世界，而世界也听从他们。 6 我们属于神，那认识神的，就听从我们；那不属于神的，就不听从我们。由此，我们就认出真理的灵和迷惑人的灵。

在爱中认识神

7 各位蒙爱的人哪，让我们彼此相爱，因为爱是出于神的。凡是有爱的，都由神所生，并且认识神； 8 那没有爱的，就不认识神，因为神就是爱。 9 神差派了自己的独生子到世上来，好使我们能藉着他而活；如此，属神的爱就在我们里面显明了。 10 并不是我们爱了神，而是神爱了我们，差派他的儿子来，为我们的罪孽做了平息祭[d]——在这里就是爱了。 11 各位蒙爱的人哪，既然神如此爱我们，我们也应该彼此相爱。 12 从来没有人见过神；如果我们彼此相爱，神就住在我们里面，他的爱也就在我们里面得以完全。

13 我们从这一点知道：我们住在他里面，而他也住在我们里面，是因为神把他的灵赐给了我们； 14 我们已经见过，并且现在见证：父差派子做世界的救主， 15 凡是承认耶稣是神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。 16 这样，我们已经认识并相信了神对我们所怀的爱。神就是爱；那住在爱里面的，就住在神里面，神也住[e]在他里面。

17 从这一点，爱在我们里面得以完全，使我们在审判的日子可以坦然无惧，因为基督[f]怎样，我们在这世上也怎样。 18 爱里没有惧怕；相反，完美的爱能除去惧怕，因为惧怕带有惩罚；而那惧怕的，在爱里没有得以完全。 19 我们爱[g]，是因为他先爱了我们。

遵守神的命令

20 如果有人说“我爱神”，却恨自己的弟兄，他就是说谎者，因为一个人不爱自己所看到的弟兄，就不能爱没有看到的神。[h] 21 这是我们从基督[i]所领受的命令：爱神的，也要爱自己的弟兄。

Footnotes

  1. 约翰一书 4:2 耶稣基督是以肉身而来的——或译作“耶稣是以肉身而来的基督”。
  2. 约翰一书 4:3 耶稣——有古抄本作“耶稣基督是以肉身而来”。
  3. 约翰一书 4:4 假先知们——原文直译“他们”。
  4. 约翰一书 4:10 平息祭——或译作“挽回祭”。
  5. 约翰一书 4:16 有古抄本没有“住”。
  6. 约翰一书 4:17 基督——原文直译“那一位”。
  7. 约翰一书 4:19 有古抄本附“他”。
  8. 约翰一书 4:20 就不能爱没有看到的神。——有古抄本作“怎么能够爱没有看到的神呢？”
  9. 约翰一书 4:21 基督——原文直译“他”。
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On Denying the Incarnation

4 Dear friends,(A) do not believe every spirit,(B) but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.(C) 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh(D) is from God,(E) 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,(F) which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.(G)

4 You, dear children,(H) are from God and have overcome them,(I) because the one who is in you(J) is greater than the one who is in the world.(K) 5 They are from the world(L) 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.(M) This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth(N) and the spirit of falsehood.(O)

God’s Love and Ours

7 Dear friends, let us love one another,(P) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God(Q) and knows God.(R) 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(S) 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son(T) into the world that we might live through him.(U) 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us(V) and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.(W) 11 Dear friends,(X) since God so loved us,(Y) we also ought to love one another.(Z) 12 No one has ever seen God;(AA) but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.(AB)

13 This is how we know(AC) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(AD) 14 And we have seen and testify(AE) that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.(AF) 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,(AG) God lives in them and they in God.(AH) 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(AI) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(AJ) 17 This is how love is made complete(AK) among us so that we will have confidence(AL) on the day of judgment:(AM) In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,(AN) because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us.(AO) 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(AP) is a liar.(AQ) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(AR) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(AS) 21 And he has given us this command:(AT) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(AU)

Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:6 Or spirit
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