1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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1 Thessalonians 5:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 Timothy 4:1

2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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1 Corinthians 12:3, John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 12:3, John 1:14, 1 Timothy 3:16

3and every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Anti-Christ, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

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1 John 2:22, 1 John 2:22, 2 John 1:7, 2 John 1:7, 1 John 2:18

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

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Romans 8:31, Romans 8:31, 1 John 5:4, 1 John 5:4, Romans 8:37

5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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John 8:23, John 8:23, John 17:14, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 2:3

6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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John 14:17, John 14:17, John 10:27, John 10:27, 1 Corinthians 2:12

7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

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1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 5:1, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:20

8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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1 John 4:16, 1 John 4:16, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 86:15, 1 John 4:7

9By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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John 3:16, John 3:16, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:11, Romans 8:32

10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Romans 5:8

11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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John 15:12, John 15:13, John 15:12, John 15:13, Colossians 3:13

12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

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John 1:18, John 1:18, 1 John 2:5, 1 John 2:5, 1 Timothy 6:16

13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 2:22, Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 2:22, 1 John 3:24

14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

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1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:10, John 3:16, John 3:17, John 4:42

15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

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1 John 5:5, Romans 10:9, 1 John 5:5, Romans 10:9, Matthew 10:32

16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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1 John 3:24, 1 John 3:24, Psalms 36:7, Psalms 36:9, Psalms 36:7

17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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1 John 4:12, 1 John 2:28, 1 John 4:12, 1 John 2:28, Romans 8:29

18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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2 Timothy 1:7, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 8:15, Romans 8:15, 1 John 4:12

19We love, because he first loved us.

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1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:10, John 15:16, John 15:16, John 3:16

20If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

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1 John 3:17, 1 John 3:17, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 4:12

21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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Matthew 22:37, Matthew 22:39, Matthew 22:37, Matthew 22:39, Leviticus 19:18