1 John 4 (ESV)

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have 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 also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

In Other Versions

1 John 4 in the ANGEFD

1 John 4 in the ANTPNG2D

1 John 4 in the AS21

1 John 4 in the BAGH

1 John 4 in the BBPNG

1 John 4 in the BBT1E

1 John 4 in the BDS

1 John 4 in the BEV

1 John 4 in the BHAD

1 John 4 in the BIB

1 John 4 in the BLPT

1 John 4 in the BNT

1 John 4 in the BNTABOOT

1 John 4 in the BNTLV

1 John 4 in the BOATCB

1 John 4 in the BOATCB2

1 John 4 in the BOBCV

1 John 4 in the BOCNT

1 John 4 in the BOECS

1 John 4 in the BOGWICC

1 John 4 in the BOHCB

1 John 4 in the BOHCV

1 John 4 in the BOHLNT

1 John 4 in the BOHNTLTAL

1 John 4 in the BOICB

1 John 4 in the BOILNTAP

1 John 4 in the BOITCV

1 John 4 in the BOKCV

1 John 4 in the BOKCV2

1 John 4 in the BOKHWOG

1 John 4 in the BOKSSV

1 John 4 in the BOLCB

1 John 4 in the BOLCB2

1 John 4 in the BOMCV

1 John 4 in the BONAV

1 John 4 in the BONCB

1 John 4 in the BONLT

1 John 4 in the BONUT2

1 John 4 in the BOPLNT

1 John 4 in the BOSCB

1 John 4 in the BOSNC

1 John 4 in the BOTLNT

1 John 4 in the BOVCB

1 John 4 in the BOYCB

1 John 4 in the BPBB

1 John 4 in the BPH

1 John 4 in the BSB

1 John 4 in the CCB

1 John 4 in the CUV

1 John 4 in the CUVS

1 John 4 in the DBT

1 John 4 in the DGDNT

1 John 4 in the DHNT

1 John 4 in the DNT

1 John 4 in the ELBE

1 John 4 in the EMTV

1 John 4 in the FBV

1 John 4 in the FEB

1 John 4 in the GGMNT

1 John 4 in the GNT

1 John 4 in the HARY

1 John 4 in the HNT

1 John 4 in the IRVA

1 John 4 in the IRVB

1 John 4 in the IRVG

1 John 4 in the IRVH

1 John 4 in the IRVK

1 John 4 in the IRVM

1 John 4 in the IRVM2

1 John 4 in the IRVO

1 John 4 in the IRVP

1 John 4 in the IRVT

1 John 4 in the IRVT2

1 John 4 in the IRVU

1 John 4 in the ISVN

1 John 4 in the JSNT

1 John 4 in the KAPI

1 John 4 in the KBT1ETNIK

1 John 4 in the KBV

1 John 4 in the KJV

1 John 4 in the KNFD

1 John 4 in the LBA

1 John 4 in the LBLA

1 John 4 in the LNT

1 John 4 in the LSV

1 John 4 in the MAAL

1 John 4 in the MBV

1 John 4 in the MBV2

1 John 4 in the MHNT

1 John 4 in the MKNFD

1 John 4 in the MNG

1 John 4 in the MNT

1 John 4 in the MNT2

1 John 4 in the MRS1T

1 John 4 in the NAA

1 John 4 in the NASB

1 John 4 in the NBLA

1 John 4 in the NBS

1 John 4 in the NBVTP

1 John 4 in the NET2

1 John 4 in the NIV11

1 John 4 in the NNT

1 John 4 in the NNT2

1 John 4 in the NNT3

1 John 4 in the PDDPT

1 John 4 in the PFNT

1 John 4 in the RMNT

1 John 4 in the SBIAS

1 John 4 in the SBIBS

1 John 4 in the SBIBS2

1 John 4 in the SBICS

1 John 4 in the SBIDS

1 John 4 in the SBIGS

1 John 4 in the SBIHS

1 John 4 in the SBIIS

1 John 4 in the SBIIS2

1 John 4 in the SBIIS3

1 John 4 in the SBIKS

1 John 4 in the SBIKS2

1 John 4 in the SBIMS

1 John 4 in the SBIOS

1 John 4 in the SBIPS

1 John 4 in the SBISS

1 John 4 in the SBITS

1 John 4 in the SBITS2

1 John 4 in the SBITS3

1 John 4 in the SBITS4

1 John 4 in the SBIUS

1 John 4 in the SBIVS

1 John 4 in the SBT

1 John 4 in the SBT1E

1 John 4 in the SCHL

1 John 4 in the SNT

1 John 4 in the SUSU

1 John 4 in the SUSU2

1 John 4 in the SYNO

1 John 4 in the TBIAOTANT

1 John 4 in the TBT1E

1 John 4 in the TBT1E2

1 John 4 in the TFTIP

1 John 4 in the TFTU

1 John 4 in the TGNTATF3T

1 John 4 in the THAI

1 John 4 in the TNFD

1 John 4 in the TNT

1 John 4 in the TNTIK

1 John 4 in the TNTIL

1 John 4 in the TNTIN

1 John 4 in the TNTIP

1 John 4 in the TNTIZ

1 John 4 in the TOMA

1 John 4 in the TTENT

1 John 4 in the UBG

1 John 4 in the UGV

1 John 4 in the UGV2

1 John 4 in the UGV3

1 John 4 in the VBL

1 John 4 in the VDCC

1 John 4 in the YALU

1 John 4 in the YAPE

1 John 4 in the YBVTP

1 John 4 in the ZBP