1 John 4

We must not believe every teacher who professes to have a Divine commission to preach, but try such, whether they be of God; and the more so because many false prophets are gone out into the world, 1 John 4:1 . Those who deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh have the spirit of antichrist, 1 John 4:2 , 1 John 4:3 . The followers of God have been enabled to discern and overcome them, 1 John 4:4-6 . The necessity of love to God and one another shown, from God's love to us, 1 John 4:7-11 . Though no man hath seen God, yet every genuine Christian knows him by the spirit which God has given him, 1 John 4:12 , 1 John 4:13 . The apostles testified that God sent his Son to be the Savior of the world; and God dwelt in those who confessed this truth, 1 John 4:14 , 1 John 4:15 . God is love, 1 John 4:16 . The nature and properties of perfect love, 1 John 4:17 , 1 John 4:18 . We love him because he first loved us, 1 John 4:19 . The wickedness of pretending to love God while we hate one another, 1 John 4:20 , 1 John 4:21 .