Thematic Bible
1 John 4:1 (show verse)
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
1 John 4:2 (show verse)
In this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ hath come in flesh is of God;
1 John 4:3 (show verse)
and every spirit that confesses not Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Anti-Christ, of which ye have heard that it is coming, and now it is in the world already.
1 John 4:4 (show verse)
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He Who is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 4:5 (show verse)
They are of the world; for this cause they speak 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 that is not of God hears us not: 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 never knew God; because God is love.
1 John 4:9 (show verse)
In this was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may 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, to be a propitiation 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 ever beheld God. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4:13 (show verse)
In this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit.
1 John 4:14 (show verse)
And we have beheld, and testify, that the Father hath sent the Son, as Savior of the world.
1 John 4:15 (show verse)
Whosoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in Him, and he in God.
1 John 4:16 (show verse)
And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.
1 John 4:17 (show verse)
In this has love been made perfect with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, even so are we in this world.
1 John 4:18 (show verse)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment; and he who fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:19 (show verse)
We love, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:20 (show verse)
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God Whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:21 (show verse)
And this commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God loves his brother also.