1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater 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 hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error.7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.9 In this the love of God was revealed in us, that God has sent His only begotten 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 to be the propitiation for our sins.11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.14 And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.16 And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.17 Love has been perfected with us in this: that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment. But he who fears has not been made complete in love.19 We love Him because He first loved us.20 If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen?21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God also loves his brother.

1 Moost dere britheren, nyle ye bileue to ech spirit, but preue ye spiritis, if thei ben of God; for many false prophetis wenten out in to the world.2 In this thing the spirit of God is knowun; ech spirit that knowlechith that Jhesu Crist hath come in fleisch, is of God;3 and ech spirit that fordoith Jhesu, is not of God. And this is antecrist, of whom ye herden, that he cometh; and riyt now he is in the world.4 Ye, litle sones, ben of God, and ye han ouercome hym; for he that is in you is more, than he that is in the world.5 Thei ben of the world, therfor thei speken of the world, and the world herith hem.6 We ben of God; he that knowith God, herith vs; he that is not of God, herith not vs. In this thing we knowen the spirit of treuthe, and the spirit of errour.7 Moost dere britheren, loue we togidere, for charite is of God; and ech that loueth his brother, is borun of God, and knowith God.8 He that loueth not, knowith not God; for God is charite.9 In this thing the charite of God apperide in vs, for God sente hise oon bigetun sone in to the world, that we lyue bi hym.10 In this thing is charite, not as we hadden loued God, but for he firste louede vs, and sente hise sone foryyuenesse for oure synnes.11 Ye moost dere britheren, if God louede vs, we owen to loue ech other.12 No man say euer God; if we louen togidre, God dwellith in vs, and the charite of hym is perfit in vs.13 In this thing we knowen, that we dwellen in hym, and he in vs; for of his spirit he yaf to vs.14 And we sayen, and witnessen, that the fadir sente his sone sauyour of the world.15 Who euer knowlechith, that Jhesu is the sone of God, God dwellith in him, and he in God.16 And we han knowun, and bileuen to the charite, that God hath in vs. God is charite, and he that dwellith in charite, dwellith in God, and God in hym.17 In this thing is the perfit charite of God with vs, that we haue trist in the dai of dom; for as he is, also we ben in this world.18 Drede is not in charite, but perfit charite puttith out drede; for drede hath peyne. But he that dredith, is not perfit in charite.19 Therfor loue we God, for he louede vs bifore.20 If ony man seith, that `Y loue God, and hatith his brother, he is a liere. For he that loueth not his brothir, which he seeth, hou mai he loue God, whom he seeth not?21 And we han this comaundement of God, that he that loueth God, loue also his brothir.