1 John 4 (NET)

1 John 4:1¹Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:212 Pet 2:11 Tim 4:12 John 1:7Prov 14:15Matt 24:4-5Jer 29:8-9Matt 7:15-161 Cor 14:291 John 2:18

1 John 4:2²By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:141 Cor 12:31 Tim 3:161 John 4:31 John 5:1John 16:13-151 John 2:23

1 John 4:3³but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:222 John 1:71 John 2:182 Thess 2:3-8

1 John 4:4⁴You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:311 John 5:4Rom 8:371 John 4:161 Cor 2:12Rom 8:10-11Eph 6:12-131 John 5:191 John 4:13Eph 6:10

1 John 4:5⁵They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:232 Pet 2:2-3John 17:14John 17:16John 3:312 Tim 4:3Rev 12:9Isa 30:10-11Jer 5:31John 15:19-20

1 John 4:6⁶We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:17John 10:271 Cor 2:12-14John 15:26John 8:45-501 John 4:11 John 4:4John 18:371 Cor 14:372 Thess 2:9-11

1 John 4:7⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:20-5:11 John 4:81 Pet 1:221 John 2:10Gal 5:221 Thess 4:9-102 Tim 1:71 John 4:121 John 3:10-231 John 2:29

1 John 4:8⁸The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:161 John 4:7Ps 86:152 Cor 13:11Ps 86:5Eph 2:4Exod 34:6-71 John 1:51 John 3:61 John 2:9

1 John 4:9⁹By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:161 John 5:11Rom 8:32John 6:571 John 4:10John 10:10John 10:28-30John 11:25-26John 6:511 John 3:16

1 John 4:10¹⁰In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:4-5Rom 5:8-101 John 4:191 John 2:2John 15:161 John 4:8-9John 3:161 John 3:1Titus 3:3-5Deut 7:7-8

1 John 4:11¹¹Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:12-13Col 3:13John 13:341 John 3:23Luke 10:371 John 3:16-172 Cor 8:8-9Eph 4:31-5:2Matt 18:32-33

1 John 4:12¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 1:181 John 2:51 John 4:17-181 Tim 6:161 John 4:201 John 3:24Exod 33:201 John 4:61 Tim 1:17Gen 32:30

1 John 4:13¹³By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:24Eph 2:20-221 Cor 3:16-17Gal 5:22-251 Cor 2:121 John 4:15-16Rom 8:9-17John 14:20-261 Cor 6:19

1 John 4:14¹⁴And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:10John 3:16-17John 4:42John 1:141 John 2:1-2John 15:26-27John 1:291 John 5:91 Pet 5:121 John 1:1-3

1 John 4:15¹⁵If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:9Matt 10:321 John 5:51 John 3:241 John 4:2Phil 2:111 John 4:121 John 5:1Luke 12:82 John 1:7

1 John 4:16¹⁶And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:24Ps 36:7-91 John 3:11 John 4:8-10Ps 18:1-31 John 4:12-131 John 3:161 Cor 2:9Ps 31:19John 6:69

1 John 4:17¹⁷By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:281 John 4:121 John 2:5Rom 8:291 John 3:31 John 3:19-21John 15:201 John 3:11 Pet 4:13-141 Pet 4:1-3

1 John 4:18¹⁸There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:7Rom 8:151 John 4:12Luke 1:74-75Heb 12:28Jas 2:19Ps 119:120Ps 73:19Job 15:21Ps 88:15-16

1 John 4:19¹⁹We love because he loved us first.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:10John 3:16John 15:16Titus 3:3-52 Cor 5:14-15Luke 7:47Eph 2:3-5Gal 5:22

1 John 4:20²⁰If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 3:171 John 2:91 John 4:121 John 2:41 John 2:111 Pet 1:81 John 1:6

1 John 4:21²¹And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 22:37-39Lev 19:181 John 3:11Gal 5:141 Pet 3:81 Thess 4:9John 13:34-35John 15:12Rom 12:9-101 John 3:14