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1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Prov 14:15 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 29:8 · Matt 7:15 · Matt 24:4 · +16 more
2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,Cross-references: John 1:14 · John 16:13 · 1Cor 12:3 · 1Tim 3:16 · 1John 2:23 · 1John 4:3 · +1 more
3and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.Cross-references: 2Thess 2:3 · 1John 2:18 · 1John 2:22 · 2John 1:7
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.Cross-references: John 10:28 · John 12:31 · John 14:17 · John 14:30 · John 16:11 · John 17:23 · +20 more
5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.Cross-references: Ps 17:4 · Isa 30:10 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 29:8 · Mic 2:11 · Luke 16:8 · +9 more
6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.Cross-references: Isa 8:20 · Isa 29:10 · Hos 4:12 · Mic 2:11 · Mic 3:8 · Luke 10:22 · +23 more
7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · John 17:3 · 2Cor 4:6 · Gal 4:9 · Gal 5:22 · 1Thess 4:9 · +8 more
8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Ps 86:5 · Ps 86:15 · John 8:54 · 2Cor 13:11 · Eph 2:4 · +7 more
9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.Cross-references: Ps 2:7 · Mark 12:6 · Luke 4:18 · John 1:14 · John 3:16 · John 3:18 · +18 more
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.Cross-references: Deut 7:7 · Dan 9:24 · John 3:16 · John 15:16 · Rom 3:25 · Rom 5:8 · +10 more
11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.Cross-references: Matt 18:32 · Luke 10:37 · John 13:34 · John 15:12 · 2Cor 8:8 · Eph 4:31 · +3 more
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.Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 33:20 · Num 12:8 · John 1:18 · 1Cor 13:13 · 1Tim 1:17 · +7 more
13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.Cross-references: John 14:20 · Rom 8:9 · 1Cor 2:12 · 1Cor 3:16 · 1Cor 6:19 · Gal 5:22 · +3 more
14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.Cross-references: John 1:14 · John 1:29 · John 3:11 · John 3:16 · John 3:32 · John 3:34 · +12 more
15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.Cross-references: Matt 10:32 · Luke 12:8 · Rom 10:9 · Phil 2:11 · 1John 3:24 · 1John 4:2 · +4 more
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.Cross-references: Ps 18:1 · Ps 31:19 · Ps 36:7 · Isa 64:4 · John 6:69 · 1Cor 2:9 · +5 more
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 we are in this world.Cross-references: Matt 10:15 · Matt 10:25 · Matt 11:22 · Matt 11:24 · Matt 12:36 · John 15:20 · +15 more
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.Cross-references: Job 15:21 · Ps 73:19 · Ps 88:15 · Ps 119:120 · Luke 1:74 · Rom 8:15 · +4 more
19We love him, because he first loved us.Cross-references: Luke 7:47 · John 3:16 · John 15:16 · 2Cor 5:14 · Gal 5:22 · Eph 2:3 · +2 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →
20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?Cross-references: 1Pet 1:8 · 1John 1:6 · 1John 2:4 · 1John 2:9 · 1John 2:11 · 1John 3:17 · +1 more
21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.Cross-references: Lev 19:18 · Matt 5:43 · Matt 22:37 · Mark 12:29 · Luke 10:37 · John 13:34 · +13 more
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