\v 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
\v 2 By this you will know the Spirit of God—every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
\v 3 and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
\v 6 We 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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\v 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
\v 8 He who loves not knows not God, for God is love.
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\v 9 In this the love of God was revealed among us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
\v 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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\v 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
\v 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love throws fear out, because fear has to do with punishment. But the one who fears has not been made perfect in love.
\v 20 If anyone says, "I love God" but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
\v 21 And this is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.