I John 4-5

I John 4

¹My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

²By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

³And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

⁴You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁵They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.

⁶We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

⁷My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

⁸He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

⁹And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

¹⁰And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

¹¹My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

¹²No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

¹³And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

¹⁴And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

¹⁵Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

¹⁶And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

¹⁷In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

¹⁸There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

¹⁹We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

²⁰If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

²¹And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

I John 5

¹Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

²In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

³For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

⁴Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

⁵Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

⁷And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

⁸There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

⁹If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

¹⁰He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

¹¹And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹²He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

¹³I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

¹⁴And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

¹⁵And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

¹⁶If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

¹⁷All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

¹⁸We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

¹⁹We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

²⁰And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

²¹My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.