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.
004:013 We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He
is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given
us a portion of His Spirit.
004:014 And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent
the Son to be the Saviour of the world.