1 John 4 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world. ² In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world. ⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world. ⁵ They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. ⁷ Dearly beloved, we should love one another: for love is of God; and every one loving has been born of God, and knows God. ⁸ He not loving knows not God; for God is love. ⁹ In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us. ¹³ In this we know that we remain in him, and he in us, for he has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his. Son a Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ In this has love been completed with us, that we might have freedom of speech in the day of judgment: for as he is, so are we in this world. ¹⁸ Fear is not in love; but perfected love casts out fear: for fear has restraint. And he fearing has not been perfected in love. ¹⁹ We should love him, for he first loved us. ²⁰ If any say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he not loving his brother whom he has seen, God whom he has not seen, how can he love? ²¹ And this command have we from him, That he loving God love his brother also.