1 John 4:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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  • John 14:17 : 17 The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you and will be in you.
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
  • John 15:26 : 26 But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of me.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
  • John 20:21 : 21 Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you! As my Father has sent me, I also send you.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
  • Rom 11:8 : 8 According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.
  • 1 Cor 2:12-14 : 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • John 16:13 : 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he will not speak on his own; but whatever he hears, he will speak: and he will show you things to come.
  • John 13:20 : 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has He covered.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
  • John 8:45-50 : 45 And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God. 48 Then the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon? 49 Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 And I do not seek my own glory: there is one who seeks and judges.
  • John 10:16 : 16 And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
  • Jude 1:17 : 17 But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Cor 10:7 : 7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;
  • 2 Pet 3:2 : 2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

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    1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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    3And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even now it is already in the world.

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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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