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1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of [the] God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 In(=By) this you know the Sprit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in (the) flesh is of [the] God,
3 and every spirit that does not confess the Jesus is not of(=from) [the] God. And this is the (spirit) of the antichrist, which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
4 You are from(=of) God, children, and you have overcome them, because the One in you is greater than the one in the world.
5 They are from(=of) the world; therefore they speak from(=as of) the world and the world hears them.
6 We are from(=of) [the] God. The one knowing [the] God hears us. (He) who is not from(=of) [the] God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of [the] truth and the spirit of [the] error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because [the] love is from(=of) [the] God, and every one loving has been born from(=of) [the] God and knows [the] God.
8 The one not loving did(=does) not know [the] God, because [the] God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested among us, that [the] God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through him.
10 In this is the love: not that we have loved [the] God, but that He loved us and sent His Son a propitiation(=as an atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
11 Beloved, if [the] God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God, if we [may] love one another, [the] God abides in us and His love is having been perfected(=has been perfected)1 in us.
13 In(=By) this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us from(=of) His Sprit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son (as the) Savior of the world.
15 If anyone [might] confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, the God abides in him and he in [the] God.
16 And we have known and believed the love which [the] God has in(=for) us. [The] God is love, and the one abiding in [the] love abides in [the] God, and [the] God abides in him.
17 In this the love has been perfected with(=among) us so that we may(=will) have confidence in the day of [the] judgment, because as that One is, so are we in this world.
18 (There) is no fear in [the] love, but the perfect love casts out [the] fear, because [the] fear has punishment, and the one fearing has not been perfected in [the] love.
19 We love because He first loved us.
20 If someone [might] says, “[that] I love [the] God,” and [may] hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen is not able to love [the] God whom he has not seen.
21 And we have this commandment from Him: that the one loving [the] God may(=must) also love his brother.
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