1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Compare verse6 commentaries
2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: Compare verse9 commentaries
3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Compare verse13 commentaries
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Compare verse7 commentaries
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. Compare verse6 commentaries
6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Compare verse4 commentaries
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. Compare verse7 commentaries
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. Compare verse4 commentaries
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. Compare verse5 commentaries
12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us. Compare verse9 commentaries
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. Compare verse3 commentaries
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Compare verse3 commentaries
15 Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. Compare verse4 commentaries
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Compare verse13 commentaries
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. Compare verse6 commentaries
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. Compare verse15 commentaries
20 If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? Compare verse7 commentaries
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also. Compare verse3 commentaries