| 4:1 | Dear friends, do not believe every spirit,* but test* the spirits* to determine* if they are from God, because many false prophets* have gone out into the world. |
| 4:2 | By this* you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses* Jesus as the Christ* who has come in the flesh is from God, |
| 4:3 | but* every spirit that does not confess* Jesus* is not from God, and this is the spirit* of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world. |
| 4:4 | You are from God, little children, and have conquered them,* because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. |
| 4:5 | They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them. |
| 4:6 | We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but* whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this* we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.* |
| 4:7 | Dear friends, let us love one another, because* love is from God, and everyone who loves* has been fathered* by God and knows God. |
| 4:8 | The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.* |
| 4:9 | By this* the love of God* is revealed in us:* that God has sent his one and only* Son into the world so that we may live through him. |
| 4:10 | In this* is love: not that* we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice* for our sins. |
| 4:11 | Dear friends, if God so loved us, then* we also ought to love one another.* |
| 4:12 | No one has seen God at any time.* If we love one another, God resides* in us, and his love is perfected in us.* |
| 4:13 | By this* we know that we reside in God* and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.* |
| 4:14 | And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior* of the world. |
| 4:15 | If anyone* confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides* in him and he in God. |
| 4:16 | And we have come to know and to believe* the love that God has in us.* God is love, and the one who resides* in love resides in God, and God resides in him. |
| 4:17 | By this* love is perfected with* us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus* is, so also are we in this world. |
| 4:18 | There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.* The* one who fears punishment* has not been perfected in love. |
| 4:19 | We love* because he loved us first. |
| 4:20 | If anyone says* “I love God” and yet* hates his fellow Christian,* he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian* whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.* |
| 4:21 | And the commandment we have from him is this: that* the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian* too. |
1 Yohanes 4 - NET Bible [draft]
