1 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God: 3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. 9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. 10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. 11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us. 13 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit. 14 And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him. 17 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world. 18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity. 19 Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us. 20 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not? 21 And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.
1 Juan · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
1 Juan 4 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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Referencias cruzadas (21)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Tesalonicenses 5:21; 2 Pedro 2:1; 1 Timoteo 4:1; Proverbios 14:15; 2 Juan 7
- 2 Juan 1:14; 1 Corintios 12:3; 1 Timoteo 3:16; 1 Juan 5:1; 1 Juan 4:3
- 3 1 Juan 2:22; 2 Juan 7; 1 Juan 2:18; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:3–8
- 4 Romanos 8:31; 1 Juan 5:4; Romanos 8:37; 1 Juan 4:16; 1 Corintios 2:12
- 5 Juan 8:23; 2 Pedro 2:2–3; Juan 17:14; Juan 3:31; Juan 17:16
- 6 Juan 14:17; Juan 10:27; 1 Corintios 2:12–14; Juan 15:26; 1 Juan 4:1
- 7 1 Juan 4:20–5:1; 1 Juan 4:8; 1 Pedro 1:22; 1 Juan 2:10; Gálatas 5:22
- 8 1 Juan 4:16; 1 Juan 4:7; Salmo 86:15; 2 Corintios 13:11; Salmo 86:5
- 9 Juan 3:16; 1 Juan 5:11; Romanos 8:32; 1 Juan 4:10; Juan 6:57
- 10 Efesios 2:4–5; Romanos 5:8–10; 1 Juan 4:19; 1 Juan 2:2; Juan 15:16
- 11 Juan 15:12–13; Colosenses 3:13; Juan 13:34; 1 Juan 3:23; Lucas 10:37
- 12 Juan 1:18; 1 Juan 2:5; 1 Juan 4:17–18; 1 Timoteo 6:16; 1 Juan 4:20
- 13 1 Juan 3:24; Efesios 2:20–22; 1 Corintios 3:16–17; Gálatas 5:22–25; 1 Corintios 2:12
- 14 1 Juan 4:10; Juan 3:16–17; Juan 4:42; Juan 1:14; Juan 1:29
- 15 Romanos 10:9; Mateo 10:32; 1 Juan 5:5; 1 Juan 3:24; 1 Juan 4:2
- 16 1 Juan 3:24; Salmo 36:7–9; 1 Juan 3:1; Salmo 18:1–3; 1 Juan 4:8–10
- 17 1 Juan 4:12; 1 Juan 2:28; Romanos 8:29; 1 Juan 3:3; 1 Juan 2:5
- 18 2 Timoteo 1:7; Romanos 8:15; 1 Juan 4:12; Lucas 1:74–75; Hebreos 12:28
- 19 1 Juan 4:10; Juan 3:16; Juan 15:16; 2 Corintios 5:14–15; Tito 3:3–5
- 20 1 Juan 3:17; 1 Juan 2:9; 1 Juan 4:12; 1 Juan 2:4; 1 Juan 2:11
- 21 Mateo 22:37–39; Levítico 19:18; 1 Juan 3:11; Gálatas 5:14; 1 Pedro 3:8
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
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Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
So is this world to all the faithful seeking their own country, as was the desert to the people Israel. They wandered indeed as yet, and were seeking their own country: but with God for their guide they could not wander astray. Their way was God's bidding.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
"For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;" and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan.
For that fear of which the Apostle John says, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love," --that fear is not of the same kind as the Apostle Paul felt lest the Corinthians should be seduced by the subtlety of the serpent; for …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… to the soldiers, fear not, but to you; as for them, let them be afraid, that, taught by experience, they may bear witness and say, Truly this was the Son of God; but you ought not to be afraid, for perfect love casteth out fear.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
They fear God, indeed, but it is with that servile fear "which is not in love; for perfect love casteth out fear." Therefore to them that hope in Him He perfecteth His sweetness, inspiring them with His own love, so that with a holy fear, which love does not cast out, but which endureth for ever, they may, when they …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)