Thematic Bible
1 John 4:1 (show verse)
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2 (show verse)
Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;
1 John 4:3 (show verse)
and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.
1 John 4:4 (show verse)
Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:5 (show verse)
They are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
1 John 4:6 (show verse)
We are of God; he that 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, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
1 John 4:8 (show verse)
He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
1 John 4:9 (show verse)
Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10 (show verse)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 (show verse)
Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12 (show verse)
No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:13 (show verse)
Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:14 (show verse)
And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world.
1 John 4:15 (show verse)
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:16 (show verse)
And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:17 (show verse)
Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.
1 John 4:18 (show verse)
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.
1 John 4:19 (show verse)
We love because he has first loved us.
1 John 4:20 (show verse)
If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 4:21 (show verse)
And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.