1 João 4

1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and 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. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 6 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.

7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. 9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born*4:9 The phrase "only born" is from the Greek word "μονογενη", which is sometimes translated "only begotten" or "one and only". Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice*4:10 "atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "ιλασμος", an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17 In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him,*4:19 NU omits "him". because he first loved us. 20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

He Wairua Pono, Wairua Teka Rānei

1 E ngā hoa aroha, kaua e whakapono atu ki ngā wairua katoa, engari me whakamātau ngā wairua nō te Atua rānei; he tokomaha hoki ngā poropiti teka kua haere mai ki te ao. 2 Mā konei koutou ka mātau ai ki te Wairua o te Atua. Ko ngā wairua katoa e whakaae ana i haere mai a Īhu Karaiti i te kikokiko, nō te Atua ērā. 3 Ko ngā wairua katoa hoki kāhore e whakaae i haere mai a Īhu Karaiti i te kikokiko, ehara i te mea nō te Atua. Ko tō te anatikaraiti wairua anō tēnei, i rongo nei koutou e haere mai ana; ā, tēnei anō kei te ao nei ināianei.

4 Nō te Atua koutou, e āku tamariki nonohi, kua kaha anō koutou i a rātou. Nō te mea nui atu tēnei i roto i a koutou, i tērā i roto i te ao. 5 Nō te ao rātou; nā reira nō te ao nei anō ā rātou kōrero, ā, e whakarongo ana te ao ki a rātou. 6 Nō te Atua tātou; ko te tangata e mātau ana ki te Atua, e whakarongo ana ia ki a tātou; ko te tangata ehara nei i tā te Atua, e kore ia e whakarongo ki a tātou. Mā konei tātou ka mātau ai ki te wairua o te pono, ki te wairua o te hē.

He Aroha te Atua

7 E ngā hoa aroha, kia aroha tātou tētahi ki tētahi, nō te Atua hoki te aroha; ko te hunga katoa hoki e aroha ana, kua whānau i te Atua, e mātau ana hoki ki te Atua. 8 Ko te tangata kāhore e aroha, kāhore ia e mātau ki te Atua; he aroha hoki te Atua. 9 Nā konei i kitea mai ai te aroha o te Atua ki a tātou, nā te mea kua tonoa mai e te Atua tāna Tama kotahi ki te ao, kia ora ai tātou i a ia. 10 Ko te aroha tēnei, ehara i te mea ko tātou kua aroha ki te Atua, engari, ko ia kua aroha ki a tātou, ā, tonoa mai ana e ia tāna Tama hei whakamārie mō ō tātou hara.

11 E ngā hoa aroha, ki te mea i pēnei te aroha o te Atua ki a tātou, he tika anō hoki kia aroha tātou tētahi ki tētahi. 12 Kāhore he wā i kite ai tētahi i te Atua. Ki te aroha tātou tētahi ki tētahi, e noho ana te Atua i roto i a tātou, kua rite pū anō tōna aroha i roto i a tātou.

13 Nā konei tātou i mātau ai e noho ana tātou i roto i a ia, me ia i roto i a tātou, nā te mea kua hōmai e ia tā tōna Wairua ki a tātou. 14 Kua kite anō mātou, ka whakaatu nei anō hoki, i tonoa mai te Tama e te Matua hei Kaiwhakaora mō te ao. 15 Ko te tangata e whakaae ana ko Īhu te Tama a te Atua, e noho ana te Atua i roto i a ia, me ia anō hoki i roto i te Atua. 16 Kua mātau nei anō hoki tātou, kua whakapono ki te aroha o te Atua ki a tātou.

He aroha te Atua, ko te tangata hoki e noho ana i runga i te aroha e noho ana i roto i te Atua, me te Atua anō hoki i roto i a ia. 17 Nā konei te aroha i roto i a tātou i rite pū ai, ā, ka whai māiatanga anō tātou ā te rā whakawā; nā te mea e rite ana ki a ia tātou e noho nei i tēnei ao. 18 Kāhore he mataku i roto i te aroha; engari, ka makā te mataku ki waho e te aroha ina tino rite; nō te mea he mamae tō te mataku. Ko te tangata hoki e mataku ana, kāhore ia i tino rite i roto i te aroha.

19 E aroha ana tātou ki a ia, nō te mea ko ia kua mātua aroha ki a tātou. 20 Ki te mea tētahi, "E aroha ana ahau ki te Atua," ā, e mauāhara ana ki tōna teina, he tangata teka ia. Ko te tangata hoki kāhore e aroha ki tōna teina i kitea nei e ia, me pēhea ka aroha ai ia ki te Atua kāhore nei i kitea e ia? 21 Kei a tātou anō hoki tēnei ture, he mea nāna, "Ko te tangata e aroha ana ki te Atua, kia aroha hoki ki tōna teina."