{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/1-john/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T22:39:24.991Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"1 John","bookSlug":"1-john","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He that loves not knows not God; for God is love."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"We love him, because he first loved us."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 John 4 (AKJV)","markdown":"[1 John 4](https://primebible.com/akjv/1-john/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/1-john/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}