Thematic Bible




1 John 4:1 (show verse)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many FALSE prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:2 (show verse)

By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in flesh is of God,

1 John 4:3 (show verse)

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. And this is that of the antichrist, which ye have heard that it comes, and is now in the world already.

1 John 4:4 (show verse)

Ye are of God, little children, and ye have overcome them, because greater is he in you than he in the world.

1 John 4:5 (show verse)

They are of the world. Because of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 4:6 (show verse)

We are of God. He who knows God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:7 (show verse)

Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

1 John 4:8 (show verse)

He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:9 (show verse)

By this the love of God was made known in us, because God sent his Son, the only begotten, into the world so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:10 (show verse)

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

1 John 4:11 (show verse)

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.

1 John 4:12 (show verse)

No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.

1 John 4:13 (show verse)

In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.

1 John 4:14 (show verse)

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, a Savior of the world.

1 John 4:15 (show verse)

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

1 John 4:16 (show verse)

And we know, and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:17 (show verse)

By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.

1 John 4:18 (show verse)

Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love.

1 John 4:19 (show verse)

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:20 (show verse)

If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

1 John 4:21 (show verse)

And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.