4:1   Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they come 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 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh comes from God;

4:3  and every spirit that does not confess Jesus does not come from God; this identifies the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it will come, and now it has already appeared in the world.

4:4   You come from God, little children, and have overcome them; because We recognize Him as greater who dwells in you than he who dwells in the world.

4:5   They come from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

4:6   We come from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who does not from God does not listen to us By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

4:7   Beloved, let us love one another, for love comes from God; and everyone who loves has become born of God and knows God.

4:8   The one who does not love does not know God, for God constitutes love.

4:9   By this the love of God manifested itself in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

4:10  In this we see love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to serve as the propitiation for our sins.

4:11   Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

4:12   No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love can perfect in us.

4:13   By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

4:14   We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to serve as the Savior of the world.

4:15   Whoever confesses that we identify Jesus as the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

4:16   We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us God constitutes love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

4:17   By this, love perfects within us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He appears now, so also we appear in this world.

4:18   There exists no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears has not received perfection in love.

4:19   We love, because He first loved us.

4:20   If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he lies; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

4:21   And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also