{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "1 John",
 "chapter": 4,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "We love him, because he first loved us."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also."
  }
 ],
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