004:003 and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge
this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ;
of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.
004:004 As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have
successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you
than he who is in the world.
004:005 They are the world's children, and so their language
is that of the world, and the world listens to them.
We are God's children.
004:006 The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
004:007 Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.
004:008 He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God;
because God is love.
004:009 God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His
only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.
004:010 This is love indeed—we did not love God, but He loved us
and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
004:011 Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to
love one another.
004:012 No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another,
God continues in union with us, and His love in all its
perfection is in our hearts.