10 1In this the achildren of God and the bchildren of the devil are manifest. Everyone who does not cpractice righteousness is not of God, neither he who ddoes not 2love his brother.
11 For this is the 1message which you aheard 2from the beginning, that we should 3blove one another,
12 Not as aCain was 1of the 2bevil one and cslew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s, drighteous.
13 Do not marvel, brothers, if the 1world ahates you.
14 We know that we have apassed out of 1death into life because we blove the brothers. He who cdoes 2not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who 1ahates his brother is a 2bmurderer, and you know that no murderer has ceternal life abiding in him.
16 In this we know love, that aHe blaid down His 1life on our behalf, and we ought to clay down our 2lives on behalf of the brothers.
17 But whoever has the livelihood of the world and sees that his brother has aneed and bshuts up his 1affections from him, how does the 2clove of God abide in him?
18 1Little children, let us not alove in word nor in tongue but in 2deed and 3btruthfulness.
19 And in this we will know that we are of the 1truth, and we will 2persuade our heart before Him,
20 Because if our 1heart ablames us, it is because God is bgreater than our heart and cknows all things.
21 Beloved, if our aheart does not blame us, we have 1bboldness ctoward God;
22 And 1whatever we aask we receive from Him because we 2bkeep His commandments and 3do the things that are cpleasing in His sight.
23 And this is His 1acommandment, that we bbelieve in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and clove one another, even as He gave a commandment to us.
24 And he who akeeps His commandments 1babides cin Him, and 2He in him. And in this we know that He abides in us, 3by the 4dSpirit whom He gave to us.
CHAPTER 4
1 Beloved, do anot believe 1every bspirit, but 2cprove 1the spirits whether they are 3of God, because many 4dfalse prophets have egone out into the world.
2 In this you know the aSpirit of God: Every 1spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come 2in the bflesh is of God,
3 And every 1spirit which does anot confess Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the 2antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now is already in the world.
4 You are 1of God, 2little children; and you have aovercome 3them because bgreater is 4He who is cin you than 5he who is in the dworld.
5 They are 1of the aworld; therefore they speak 1out of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are 1aof God; he who knows God bhears us; he who is 2not of God does not hear us. 3From this we know the 4Spirit of 5truth and the 4cspirit of deception.