Thematic Bible




1 John 4:1 (show verse)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:2 (show verse)

Here is how you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is from God.

1 John 4:3 (show verse)

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that you heard was coming and now it is already in the world.

1 John 4:4 (show verse)

You are of God, my little children. You have overcome them because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

1 John 4:5 (show verse)

They are from the world. They speak that which is from the world and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:6 (show verse)

We are from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the vital principle (spirit) of truth, and the principle (spirit) of deception (error).

1 John 4:7 (show verse)

Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:8 (show verse)

He who does not love does not know God for God is love.

1 John 4:9 (show verse)

The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world 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 to be the propitiation (atonement) (sacrificial payment) for our sins.

1 John 4:11 (show verse)

Beloved, if God 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 lives with us, and his love is perfected (accomplished) (matured) through us.

1 John 4:13 (show verse)

We know that we live with him and he with us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 4:14 (show verse)

We see and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 4:15 (show verse)

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives with him, and he with God.

1 John 4:16 (show verse)

We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him.

1 John 4:17 (show verse)

This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid (exposed to) this world.

1 John 4:18 (show verse)

There is no fear in love. Perfect (mature) love throws out (expels) fear because fear involves restraint (punishment). He who fears is not made perfect (mature) (complete) through love.

1 John 4:19 (show verse)

We love, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:20 (show verse)

If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:21 (show verse)

We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.