1 John 4:6

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We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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3and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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