1 John

1vì đã có nhiều ngôn sứ giả lan tràn khắp thế gian.

2thì thần khí ấy bởi Thiên Chúa ;

3và hiện nay nó ở trong thế gian rồi.

4vì Đấng ở trong anh em mạnh hơn kẻ ở trong thế gian.

5vì thế, chúng nói theo thế gian, và thế gian nghe chúng.

6thần khí dẫn đến sự thật và thần khí làm cho sai lầm.

7và người ấy biết Thiên Chúa.

8vì Thiên Chúa là tình yêu.

9để nhờ Con Một của Người mà chúng ta được sống.

10và sai Con của Người đến làm của lễ đền tội cho chúng ta.

11chúng ta cũng phải yêu thương nhau.

12và tình yêu của Người nơi chúng ta mới nên hoàn hảo.

13đó là Người đã ban Thần Khí của Người cho chúng ta.

14làm Đấng cứu độ thế gian.

15và người ấy ở lại trong Thiên Chúa.

16và Thiên Chúa ở lại trong người ấy.

17thì chúng ta cũng như vậy ở thế gian này.

18và ai sợ hãi thì không đạt tới tình yêu hoàn hảo.

19vì Thiên Chúa đã yêu thương chúng ta trước.

20mà họ không trông thấy.

21ai yêu mến Thiên Chúa, thì cũng yêu thương anh em mình.

1Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:

3And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.

4You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

6We 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 error.

7Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

8He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

9By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

10In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

11My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

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

13In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

14And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

16And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

17In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

18Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

19Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.

20If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?

21And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.