Study Desk

^(a)Beloved, do not believe every ^(b)spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because ^(c)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(d)every spirit that ^(e)confesses that ^(f)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

and every spirit that ^(g)does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the ^(h)antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and ⁽ⁱ⁾now it is already in the world.

You are from God, ^(j)little children, and ^(k)have overcome them; because ^(l)greater is He who is in you than ^(m)he who is in the world.

⁽ⁿ⁾They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

^(o)We are from God; ^(p)he who knows God listens to us; ^(q)he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^(r)the spirit of truth and ^(s)the spirit of error.

^(t)Beloved, let us ^(u)love one another, for love is from God; and ^(v)everyone who loves is ^[a](w)born of God and ^(x)knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, for ^(y)God is love.

By this the love of God was manifested ^[b](z)in us, that ^(aa)God has sent His ^[c]only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

In this is love, ^(ab)not that we loved God, but that ^(ac)He loved us and sent His Son to be ^(ad)the propitiation for our sins.

^(ae)Beloved, if God so loved us, ^(af)we also ought to love one another.

^(ag)No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His ^(ah)love is perfected in us.

^(ai)By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.

We have seen and ^(aj)testify that the Father has ^(ak)sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

^(al)Whoever confesses that ^(am)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(an)abides in him, and he in God.

^(ao)We have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^[d](ap)for us. ^(aq)God is love, and the one who ^(ar)abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

By this, ^(as)love is perfected with us, so that we may have ^(at)confidence in ^(au)the day of judgment; because ^(av)as He is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but ^(aw)perfect love casts out fear, because fear ^[e]involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(ax)perfected in love.

^(ay)We love, because He first loved us.

^(az)If someone says, "I love God," and ^(ba)hates his brother, he is a ^(bb)liar; for ^(bc)the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^(bd)cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And ^(be)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(bf)should love his brother also.