{"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/dbt/1-john/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T11:14:06.039Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Ye are of God, 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; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He that loves not has not known God; for God is love."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has 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 a propitiation for our sins."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"We love because he has first loved us."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If any one say, I love God, and hate 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 that loves God love also his brother."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 John 4 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 John 4](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-john/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-john/4 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}