Sunday, December 26, 2021

A Fresh Translation of 1 John 4

     Dear ones, don’t trust in every spirit but examine the spirits by testing if they are born of God or not, because many false prophets had come out into the universe. With this you recognize the Spirit of God; every single spirit which agrees Yeshua the Christ had come with flesh and blood is born of God, and every single spirit which doesn’t agree with Yeshua isn’t born of God; and this thing is the one of the antichrist, which you had heard that he is coming, and now is already within the universe. You are born of God, little children, and had been victorious over them, because the One within you is bigger than the one within the universe. They are of the order of this world, because of this they talk out of the order of this world and the order of this world listens to them. We are born of God, the person being familiar with God listens to us, the person who isn’t born of God doesn’t listen to us. From this we recognize the spirit of the Truth and the spirit of going astray.

     Dear ones, we should love one another, because love is born of God, and every single person loving had been born of God and recognizes God. The person not loving didn’t know God, because God = love. With this the love of God was made visible within us, because God had sent out His one of a kind Son into the universe so that we would be alive through Him. With this is love, not that we ourselves had loved God but that He Himself loved us and sent out His Son a mercy-seat about our malfunctioning behaviors. Dear ones, if God loved us in this way, we also are obligated to love one another. No one had gazed on God at any time. If we should love one another, God makes His home within us and His love is having been brought to completion within us.

     With this we know that we are making our home within Him and He within us, because He gave to us out of His Spirit. And we had watched and are testifying that the Father had sent the Son a rescuer of the universe. Whoever should agree that Yeshua is the Son of God, God makes His home within him and he within God. And we had known and had trusted the love which God holds within us.

     God = love, and the person making his home within love makes his home within God and God makes his home within him. With this that love had been brought to completion in the midst of us, so that we would have a freedom of speech on the day of the decision, because just like that One is, we also are within this universe. Fear isn’t by means of love but the completed love throws fear outside, because fear possesses a correction, yet the person fearing hadn’t been brought to completion with love. We should love, because He Himself first loved us. If someone should say that, “I love God” and should hate his brother, he is a liar; because the person not loving his brother whom he had seen can’t love the God whom he had not seen. And this command we possess from Him, so that the person loving God also loves his brother.

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