1 John 4 Cross References - Haweis

¹ BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world. ² By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God. ³ And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world. ⁴ Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. ⁵ They are of the world, therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them. ⁶ We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion. ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love. ⁹ By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his own Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and bear testimony, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. ¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ By this is his love towards us perfected, that we might have confidence at the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world. ¹⁸ Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us. ²⁰ If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen? ²¹ So this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love also his brother.

¹⁵ Take heed then of false prophets, who come to you in the garb of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ¹⁶ By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

⁴ And Jesus answering said unto them, Beware that no man deceive you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Messiah; and shall deceive multitudes.

²³ Then if any man say unto you, Lo! here is the Messiah, or there; believe it not: ²⁴ for false Messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and give out great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if it were possible, even the elect. ²⁵ Behold, I have forewarned you. ²⁶ Therefore if they say to you, He is in the wilderness; go not out: lo! he is in the secret closets; believe it not.

²¹ And then, if any man say to you, Lo, here is the Messiah! or, lo there! believe it not.

⁵⁷ And why even of yourselves do ye not decide what is just?

⁸ Then he said, Take heed that ye be not deluded: for many will come in my name, saying, I am he; and the period approaches: go not therefore after them.

¹¹ Now these were more liberally minded men than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were really so.

²⁹ For this I know, that after my departure there will come among you grievous wolves, not sparing the flock:

¹⁸ For such are not servants to our Lord Jesus Christ, but to their own belly; and by smooth speeches and flattering commendations deceive the hearts of the guileless. ¹⁹ For your obedience is gone forth in report to all men. I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil.

¹⁰ to another miraculous powers; to another prophecy; to another discernments of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

²⁹ Let the prophets two or three speak, and let the others judge.

²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

¹ NOW the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter days some will apostatise from the faith, giving heed to spirits of delusion, and doctrines of devils;

¹³ But wicked men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and deceived.

¹ BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

¹⁸ My dear children, it is the last hour; and as ye have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there are many antichrists: by which we know it is the last hour.

⁷ For many deceivers are gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus the Messiah as come in the flesh. Such a one is a deceiver and an antichrist.

² I know thy works, and thy travail, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked; and hast tried those who give themselves out as apostles, yet are not, and hast found them liars;

¹⁴ And the Word became incarnate, and tabernacled with us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

¹³ But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he will conduct you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever things he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will declare to you the things that shall come hereafter. ¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. ¹⁵ All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore I said, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

³ Wherefore I advertise you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

²³ Every one that denieth the Son, neither doth he hold the Father; but he that acknowledgeth the Son, holdeth the Father also.

³ And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

¹ EVERY one who believeth that Jesus is the Messiah, is born of God; and every one who loveth him that begat, loveth him also who is begotten by him.

³ Let no man deceive you in any way: because that cannot be till the apostasy come first, and the man of sin appear, the son of perdition, ⁴ who opposeth himself against, and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is the object of adoration; so that he in the temple of God sitteth as God, exhibiting himself in public that he is God. ⁵ Do ye not remember that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now ye know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his own time. ⁷ For the mystery of iniquity is already powerfully working; only he that withholdeth hitherto, will do so till he is removed. ⁸ And then that lawless person will appear, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming;

²² Who is the liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Messiah? This man is the antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.

²⁸ and I give unto them everlasting life and they shall never perish to eternity, and no person shall pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all and no one shall pluck them out of my Father's hand. ³⁰ I and my Father are one.

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the ruler of this world be ejected out [of it].

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; because he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans: I am coming to you. ¹⁹ Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. ²⁰ In that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ²¹ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he is the person who loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ²² Then Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not unto the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man love me, he will observe my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

³⁰ I shall not speak many things more with you: for the ruler of this world is coming, though in me he hath no part.

¹¹ and of judgment, because the ruler of this world hath sentence pronounced on him.

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

¹⁰ But if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead on account of sin; but the Spirit is alive through righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who hath raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his indwelling Spirit in you.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who [shall be] against us?

³⁷ But in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

¹² Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

¹³ Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

⁴ among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

¹⁶ or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."

² wherein in times past ye walked after the fashion of this world, after the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now worketh with energy in the children of disobedience:

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁰ Finally, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

¹² For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions. ¹³ Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand.

¹³ I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

⁹ Every one who is born of God, doth not practise sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. ¹⁰ By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him; and by this we know that he abideth in us, from the Spirit which he hath given us.

⁶ We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of delusion.

¹³ By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his own Spirit.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

⁴ Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

¹⁹ We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of that wicked one.

¹¹ And they have vanquished him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto death.

⁸ And the master praised the unjust steward, because he had acted providently: for the children of this world are more provident among their own generation of men, than the children of light.

³¹ He that cometh from above is above all: he whose origin is from earth is of the earth, and speaketh of the earth: he who cometh from heaven is above all.

⁶ Jesus therefore saith to them, My proper time is not yet come: but your time is always ready. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

²³ And he said to them, Ye are from those beneath; I am from those above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's also.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own inclinations will set up a herd of teachers for themselves, having the itch of hearing;

² And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled. ³ And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the Devil, and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

²² All things are given up to me by my Father: and no man knoweth who is the Son, but the Father; and who is the Father, but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal him.

¹⁹ Then said they to him, Where is thy father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.

⁴⁵ But because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. ⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? Now if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me? ⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth the words of God: ye therefore do not hear him, because ye are not of God. ⁴⁸ Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Do we not rightly affirm, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me. ⁵⁰ But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: these also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, one shepherd.

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

²⁰ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I shall send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; because he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

¹³ But when he is come, the Spirit of truth, he will conduct you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever things he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will declare to you the things that shall come hereafter.

³⁷ Then said Pilate unto him. Art thou not a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. For this end I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I should be a witness for the truth. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice.

²¹ Jesus therefore spake to them again, Peace be unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,

⁸ as it is written, "God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this present day."

¹² Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in discourses framed by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit of God; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

³⁷ If any man thinketh that he is a prophet, or spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

⁷ Regard ye the things that are personal? If any man is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him reflect again in himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we Christ's.

⁸ in a flame of fire, taking vengeance of them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

⁹ whose appearing is known by fanatical energy, displayed in all power, and signs, and lying miracles, ¹⁰ and in every unrighteous delusion among those who perish: in consequence of which things they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send unto them the energy of delusion, that they should believe a lie:

² to remember the words, that have been spoken aforetime by the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

¹ BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

⁴ Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

¹⁷ But ye, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

³ and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.

⁶ For the God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, he hath shined into our hearts, to give illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁹ But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

⁹ Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another. ¹⁰ And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more;

⁷ For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of courage, and of love, and of sobriety.

²² Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

¹⁰ He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none.

²⁹ If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is born of him.

¹⁰ By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother. ¹¹ For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous. ¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. ¹⁴ We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death. ¹⁵ Every one who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him. ¹⁶ By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth; ¹⁹ and hereby we know that we are of the truth, and in his presence have this persuasion in our hearts. ²⁰ For should our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence towards God. ²² And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

²⁰ If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, If I assume glory to myself, my glory is nothing: it is the Father who glorifies me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: ⁵⁵ yet have ye not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, that I know him not, I should be like you, a liar: but I know him, and observe his word.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, rejoice: be perfectly united together, be comforted, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,

²⁹ for our God is a devouring fire.

⁵ And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.

⁴ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and in him the truth is not.

⁹ He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

⁶ Every one who abideth in him, doth not sin; every one who sinneth hath not seen him, nor known him.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

⁶ Now he had yet one son, his beloved, and he sent him unto them last, saying, They will reverence my son.

¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the work whereunto he hath anointed me; he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor; to heal the contrite in heart; to proclaim liberty to the captives; and restore sight to the blind; to send forth the bruised free from bonds;

¹⁴ And the Word became incarnate, and tabernacled with us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ John bore witness concerning him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I said, He that is coming after me, is before me: because before me he was. ¹⁶ And from his plenitude we all have received, even grace corresponding with [his] grace. ¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath thoroughly described him.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him should not perish, but have life eternal.

¹⁸ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is already under condemnation, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

²³ in order that all may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

²⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye should believe on him whom he hath sent.

⁵¹ I am the bread that giveth life, which came down from heaven: if any person eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity; and the bread indeed which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵⁷ As the life-giving Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same shall live by me.

²⁹ And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; because I always do the things acceptable to him.

⁴² Then said Jesus unto them, If God was your Father, ye would have loved me: for I came out from God, and I am coming; neither indeed came I of myself, but he hath sent me.

¹⁰ The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

²⁵ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: ²⁶ and every one who is alive, and believeth in me, shall never die to eternity. Believest thou this?

⁶ Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.

⁸ But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead. ⁹ Therefore much more, being justified already by his blood, shall we be saved by him from wrath. ¹⁰ For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

³² He who even spared not his own Son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also, together with him, freely give us all things?

³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ shall appear, who is our life, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory.

⁵ For to which of the angels ever said he, "My Son art thou, I have to-day begotten thee?" And again, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

¹⁶ By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.

¹¹ And this is the testimony, that God hath given life eternal to us; and this life is in his Son.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

²⁵ whom God hath proposed as the propitiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, in demonstration of his justice for the remission of past sins, through the patience of God; ²⁶ for a demonstration of his justice at this present time: that he might be just, though justifying him who is of the faith of Jesus.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren. ³⁰ But whom he predestinated, those also he called: and whom he called, those also he justified: but whom he justified, those also he glorified.

¹⁹ namely, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing to them their offences: and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation. ²⁰ Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God exhorted you by us; we entreat you for Christ's sake, be ye reconciled to God. ²¹ For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be a sin offering for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us, ⁵ though we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,)

³ For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. ⁴ But even then the kindness and love of God our Saviour to man shone forth, ⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

²⁴ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

² and he himself is the propitiatory victim for our sins: and indeed not for ours only, but for the whole world.

¹ BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love. ⁹ By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him.

¹⁹ We love him, because he first loved us.

³² Then his lord, calling him before him, said to him, Thou vile slave! all that debt I forgave thee, because thou besoughtest me: ³³ and oughtest thou not to have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?

³⁷ And he said, He that shewed mercy towards him. Then said Jesus to him, Go, and do thou exactly the same.

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

⁸ I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love. ⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor though he was rich, that ye by his poverty should be made rich.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and scandal, be removed from you, with all malice:

¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye.

¹⁶ By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

²³ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

¹⁸ No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath thoroughly described him.

¹³ But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

¹⁷ Now to the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

¹⁶ who alone possesseth immortality, inhabiting light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and glory eternal. Amen.

²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not intimidated by the wrath of the king: for he boldly persisted, as seeing the invisible [Jehovah].

⁵ But whosoever keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.

¹⁷ By this is his love towards us perfected, that we might have confidence at the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world. ¹⁸ Fear is not in this love; but the perfect love casteth out fear: for fear hath anguish. He that is afraid is not made perfect in love.

²⁰ If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

²⁰ In that day ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ²¹ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he is the person who loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ²² Then Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not unto the world? ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, If any man love me, he will observe my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him. ²⁴ He that loveth me not, doth not observe my sayings: and the word which ye are hearing is not mine, but of him that sent me. ²⁵ These things have I spoken to you, while I continue among you. ²⁶ But the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, which I have spoken to you.

⁹ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. ¹⁰ But if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead on account of sin; but the Spirit is alive through righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who hath raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his indwelling Spirit in you. ¹² Truly then we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. ¹⁴ For as many as are guided by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The same spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ But if children, then heirs; heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be we suffer with him, that we may also together with him be glorified.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ¹⁷ If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

¹⁹ Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. ²⁴ But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

²⁰ built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; ²¹ in whom the whole building exactly cemented together groweth into a holy temple in the Lord: ²² by whom also ye have been built up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

¹⁵ Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God hath towards us. God is love; and he that abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming to him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world,

¹¹ Verily, verity, I tell thee, That what we know we speak, and what we have seen we affirm; and ye receive not our testimony.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him should not perish, but have life eternal. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world by him might be saved.

³² And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; though no man receiveth his testimony.

³⁴ For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God hath not given the Spirit by measure unto him.

⁴² and said to the woman, Now we believe, not merely on account of thy relation: for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is of a certainty the Saviour of the world, the Messiah.

³⁶ But I have a testimony greater than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me that I should fulfil them, these very works which I am doing, they bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me, himself hath borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither at any time heard his voice, nor seen his form.

³⁹ Search the scriptures; for ye suppose in them ye have eternal life: and these are they which testify of me.

³⁶ do ye say of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest because I said, I am the Son of God?

⁴⁷ And if any man, hearing my words, believeth not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: ²⁷ and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

⁵ And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul felt a strong impulse on his spirit, and forcibly testified to the Jews, that Jesus was the Messiah.

¹² By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I think, I have written to you a few words, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye are standing fast.

¹ THAT which was from the beginning, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have gazed upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life; ² (for the life was manifested, and we have beheld it, and bear testimony, and declare unto you that life eternal, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us;) ³ that which we have seen and heard, declare we to you, that ye also may have communion with us: and indeed our communion is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

¹ MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: ² and he himself is the propitiatory victim for our sins: and indeed not for ours only, but for the whole world.

⁹ If we receive the testimony of man, the testimony of God is stronger: for this is the testimony of God which he testified concerning his Son.

³² Every one therefore who shall make confession of me before men, of him will I also make confession before my Father who is in heaven.

⁸ But I tell you, Every one who shall confess me before men, him will the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹¹ and every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus [is] Messiah, to the glory of God the Father.

² By this ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesseth that Jesus the Messiah is come in the flesh, is from God.

⁵ Who is he that overcometh the world, except he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁶⁹ And we have believed and known that thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

⁹ But, as it is written, "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him."

⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love. ⁹ By this was the love of God manifested to us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might have life by him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his own Spirit.

¹⁵ Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

²⁵ It is sufficient if the disciple be as his teacher, and the servant as his master. If they have called the master of the family Beelzebub, how much more his domestics?

²² Wherefore I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

²⁴ Wherefore I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee.

³⁶ But I tell you, That every idle word which men speak, for it shall they give an account in the day of judgment.

²⁰ Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your's also.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he predestinated also to a conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the first-begotten among many brethren.

² earnestly looking up to Jesus the author and the finisher of faith; who, for the joy set before him, endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider then attentively him that endured from sinners such opposition against himself, that ye be not wearied out, fainting in your souls.

¹³ For judgment without mercy shall be on him who shewed no mercy, and mercy glorieth against judgment.

²² Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith consummated.

¹⁶ keeping a good conscience; that whereas they malign you, as evil doers, they may be confounded who take pleasure in ridiculing your good conduct in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better (if it be God's will) to suffer as well doers than as evil doers. ¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

¹ CHRIST then having suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also in mind armed for the same conflict: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sinning; ² that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will. ³ For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries;

¹³ but as ye share in the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory also ye may hail him with exultations. ¹⁴ If ye suffer reproach for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: by them indeed he is blasphemed, but by you he is glorified.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the wicked unto the day of judgment to be punished:

⁷ but the present heavens and earth by the same word are treasured up, reserved for fire at the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

²⁸ And now, my dear children, abide in him; that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be put to shame by him at his coming.

³ And every one who hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

¹⁹ and hereby we know that we are of the truth, and in his presence have this persuasion in our hearts. ²⁰ For should our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence towards God.

⁷⁴ to give us, that we, secure from fear, rescued from the hands of our enemies, should serve him, ⁷⁵ in righteousness and holiness before him, all the days of our life.

¹⁵ For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received a Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

²⁸ Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe:

¹⁹ Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.

⁴⁷ For which cause, I tell thee, her many sins are forgiven, for she hath loved much: but to whom a little is forgiven, he loveth little.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead: ¹⁵ and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

³ among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

⁸ whom though ye have not seen, ye love; on whom, though ye have not as yet gazed, yet believing, ye exult with joy unutterable and glorious:

⁶ If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and practise not the truth:

¹¹ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he is departing, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹⁷ But whosoever hath worldly abundance, and seeth his brother under necessity, and shutteth his bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

⁴³ Ye have heard that it hath been said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy."

³⁷ Then Jesus said to him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

²⁹ Then Jesus replied to him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear O Israel; the Lord thy God is one Lord: ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is no greater commandment than these. ³² And the scribe said unto him, Admirably, Master! thou hast spoken the very truth: for there is one God; and there is no other besides him: ³³ and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength; and to love his neighbour as himself, is better than all burnt offerings, and sacrifices.

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you.

⁹ Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. ¹⁰ In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

⁹ For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ¹⁰ Love doeth no ill to a neighbour; the fulfilment therefore of the law is love.

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith exerting its energy by love.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted,

⁸ But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

¹¹ For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

¹⁴ We know that we are passed out of [a state of] death into life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

¹⁸ My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.