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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false 1prophets are gone out into the world. |
| 2 | Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: |
| 3 | And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. |
| 4 | Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. |
| 5 | They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. |
| 6 | We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. |
| 7 | Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. |
| 8 | He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
| 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. |
| 10 | Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the apropitiation for our sins. |
| 11 | Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. |
| 12 | No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
| 13 | Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. |
| 14 | And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. |
| 15 | Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the aSon of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. |
| 16 | And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
| 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. |
| 18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. |
| 19 | We love him, because he first loved us. |
| 20 | If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? |
| 21 | And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. |
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Statements that Jesus is the Christ, Son of God. Temptation in the Wilderness. Matt 4:3, 6, By Disciples after He walked on the water. Matt 14:33 By Peter Matt 16:16, Mark 8:29, Luke 9:20 John 6:69 Asked by High Priest Matt 26:63 By Unclean Spirits Mark 3:11, Mark 5:7 Luke 4:41 By the Angel to Mary Luke 1:35 By John John 1:34 By Nathanael John 1:49 By Martha John 11:27 By the Ethiopian Eunuch Acts 8:37 By Saul of Tarsus Acts 9:20 Necessary for God to dwell in you 1st John 4:15 Necessary to overcome the world 1st John 5:5 Return to Verse 15 |
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