1 Dear friends, don't trust every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to find out whether they're from God, for there are many false prophets out there in the world. 2 How can you recognize God's Spirit? Every spirit that accepts Jesus Christ came with a human body is from God; 3 while every spirit that doesn't accept Jesus, that spirit isn't from God. In fact it is the spirit of the antichrist which you heard was coming, and which is already in the world. 4 But you belong to God, my friends, and you have defeated them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They belong to the world, so they speak like people of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We belong to God and whoever knows God listens to us, while whoever doesn't belong to God doesn't listen to us. This is how we can distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of deception. 7 Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God. 8 Those who don't love don't know God, for God is love. 9 How was God's love shown to us? God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we could live through him. 10 This is love! It's not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and he sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven. 11 Friends, if this is the way God loves us, we ought to love one another like this too. 12 No one has ever seen God. However, if we love one another then God lives in us, and his love is fulfilled in us. 13 How can we know that we live in him, and that he lives in us? He's given us the ability to love by his Spirit. 14 For we are witnesses to what we have seen and testify that the Father sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 15 God lives in everyone who declares that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God. 16 We have experienced and trusted in the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love, live in God, and God lives in them. 17 This is how love is made complete in us so that we can be confident on judgment day: by the fact that we live just like him in this world. 18 Where there is love there can be no fear. God loves us completely, and this love drives all our fears away. If we do fear, it's because we fear being punished, and this shows that we have not been fully remade by the completeness of God's love. 19 We love because he loved us first. 20 Anyone who says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, is a liar. Anyone who doesn't love a brother whom they can see, can't love God whom they can't see. 21 This is the command he gave to us: those who love God love their brothers and sisters too.
1 Juan · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
1 Juan 4 Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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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
Lo que dijeron los Padres
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)