demn us,
God is greater than our minds and knows all things.

14 [3:21]Beloved, if our minds do not condemn us, we have boldness
before God, [3:22]and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep
his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.
[3:23]And this is his commandment; that we should believe in the name
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he gave commandment.
[3:24]And he that keeps his commandments continues in him and he in
him; and by this we know that he continues in us, by the Spirit which
he gave us.

CHAPTER II.

FALSE SPIRITS, BROTHERLY LOVE, THE LOVE OF GOD, THE THREE WITNESSES,
ETC.

1 [4:1]BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether
they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
[4:2]By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [4:3]and every
spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the
[spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and
he is now in the world already.

2 [4:4]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. [4:5]They
are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears
them. [4:6]We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of
God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the
spirit of error.

3 [4:7]Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every
one that loves has been born of God and knows God. [4:8]He that loves
not has not known God; for God is love. [4:9]The love of God was
manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world
that we may live through him. [4:10]In this is love; not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

4 [4:11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
[4:12] No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues
in us and his love is perfected in us. [4:13]By this we know that we
continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit.
[4:14]And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son,
the Saviour of the world. [4:15]Whoever confesses that Jesus is the
Son of God, God continues in him and he in God. [4:16]And we have known
and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that
co