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1 john 48/21/2023 ![]() ![]() And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.Ĩ He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.ĩ By 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.ġ0 In 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.ġ1 My dearest, if God hath so loved us we also ought to love one another.ġ2 No man hath seen God at any time. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.ħ Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. "He is now already in the world": Not in his person, but in his spirit, and in his precursors.Ħ We are of God. "That dissolveth Jesus": Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his divinity. "Every spirit which confesseth": Not that the confession of this point of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient but that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian doctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and maintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper token, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the false. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. "Try the spirits": Viz., by examining whether their teaching be agreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the church. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.ĥ They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them. ![]() Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:ģ And 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.Ĥ You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. We must love one another, because God has loved us.ġ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.Ģ By this is the spirit of God known. What spirits are of God, and what are not. ![]()
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