Bilingual reading

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.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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.

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.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

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.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

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.

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.

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

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?

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

أَيُّها الأَحِبَّاء، لا تَركُنوا إِلى كُلِّ رُوح بلِ ٱختَبِروا الأَرواحَ لِتَرَوا هل هي مِن عِندِ الله. لِأَنَّ كَثيرًا مِنَ الأَنبِياء الكَذَّابينَ ٱنتَشَروا في العالَم

وما تَعرِفونَ به رُوحَ الله هو أَنَّ كُلَّ رُوحٍ يَشهَدُ لِيَسوعَ المسيحِ الَّذي جاءَ في الجَسَد كانَ مِنَ الله

وكُلَّ رُوحٍ لا يَشهَدُ لِيَسوع لم يَكُنْ مِنَ الله. ذاك هو رُوحُ المسيحِ الدَّجالِ الَّذي سَمِعتُم أَنَّه آتٍ. وهو اليَومَ في العالَم

يا بَنِيَّ، أَنتُم مِنَ الله وقد غَلَبتُم هٰؤُلاء لِأَنَّ الَّذي فيكُم أَعظَمُ مِنَ الَّذي في العالَم

هُم مِنَ العالَم لِذٰلِكَ يَتَكَلَّمونَ كَلامَ العالَم فيُصغي إِلَيهِم العالَم

أَمَّا نَحنُ فإِنَّنا مِنَ الله. فمَن عَرَفَ الله أَصْغى إِلَينا ومَن لم يَكُنْ مِنَ الله لم يُصْغِ إِلَينا. بِذٰلِكَ نَعرِفُ رُوحَ الحَقِّ مِن رُوحِ الضَّلال

أَيُّها الأَحِبَّاء، فلْيُحِبَّ بَعضُنا بَعضًا لِأَنَّ المَحبَّةَ مِنَ الله. وكُلَّ مُحِبٍّ مَولودٌ للهِ وعارفٌ بِالله

مَن لا يُحِبّ لم يَعرِفِ الله لِأَنَّ اللهَ مَحبَّة

ما ظَهَرَت بِه مَحبَّةُ اللهِ بَينَنا هو أَنَّ اللهَ أَرسَلَ ٱبنَه الوَحيدَ إِلى العالَمِ لِنَحْيا بِه

وما تَقومُ عَلَيه المَحبَّة هو أَنَّه لَسنا نَحنُ أَحبَبْنا الله بل هو أَحبَّنا فأَرسَلَ ٱبنَه كَفَّارَةً لِخَطايانا

أَيُّها الأَحِبَّاء إِذا كانَ اللهُ قد أَحبَّنا هٰذا الحُبّ فعلَينا نَحنُ أَن يُحِبَّ بَعضُنا بَعضًا

إِنَّ اللهَ ما عايَنَه أَحَدٌ قَطّ. فإِذا أَحَبَّ بَعضُنا بَعضًا فاللهُ فينا مُقيمٌ ومَحبَّتُه فينا مُكتَمِلَة

ونَعرِفُ أَنَّنا فيه نُقيمُ وأَنَّه يُقيمُ فينا بِأَنَّه وَهَبَ لَنا مِن رُوحِه

ونَحنُ عايَنَّا ونَشهَد أَنَّ الآبَ أَرسَلَ ٱبنَه مُخَلِّصًا لِلعالَم

مَن شَهِدَ بِأَنَّ يسوعَ هو ٱبنُ الله فاللهُ فيه مُقيمٌ وهو مُقيمٌ في الله

ونَحنُ عَرَفْنا المحبَّةَ الَّتي يُظهِرُها اللهُ بَينَنا وآمنَّا بِها. اللهُ مَحبَّة فمَن أَقامَ في المَحبَّةِ أَقامَ في الله وأَقامَ اللهُ فيه

وٱكتِمالُ المَحبَّةِ بِالنَّظَرِ إِلَينا أَن تَكونَ لَنا الطُّمَأنينَةُ لِيَومِ الدَّينونة فكما يَكونُ هو كذٰلك نَكونُ في هٰذا العالَم

لا خَوفَ في المَحبَّة بلِ المَحبَّةُ الكامِلةُ تَنْفي عَنها الخَوف لِأَنَّ الخَوفَ يَعْني العِقاب ومَن يَخَفْ لَم يَكُنْ كامِلًا في المَحبَّة

أَمَّا نَحنُ فإِنَّنا نُحِبّ لِأَنَّه أَحَبَّنا قَبلَ أَن نُحِبَّه

إِذا قالَ أَحَد: «إِنِّي أُحِبُّ الله» وهو يُبغِضُ أَخاه كانَ كاذِبًا لِأَنَّ الَّذي لا يُحِبُّ أَخاه وهو يَراه لا يَستَطيعُ أَن يُحِبَّ اللهَ وهو لا يَراه

إِلَيكُمُ الوَصِيَّةَ الَّتي أَخَذْناها عنه: مَن أَحَبَّ اللهَ فلْيُحِبَّ أَخاه أَيضًا