4 Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired statement, but test the inspired statements to see whether they originate with Al {pre. Ahl}, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you know that the inspired statement is from Al {pre. Ahl}: Every inspired statement that acknowledges Iesoh {Aram. Yshoa} Christ as having come in the flesh originates with Al {pre. Ahl}. 3 But every inspired statement that does not acknowledge Iesoh {Aram. Yshoa} does not originate with Al {pre. Ahl}. Furthermore, this is the antichrist’s inspired statement that you have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world.
4 You originate with Al {pre. Ahl}, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in union with you is greater than the one who is in union with the world. 5 They originate with the world; that is why they speak what originates with the world and the world listens to them. 6 We originate with Al {pre. Ahl}. Whoever comes to know Al {pre. Ahl} listens to us; whoever does not originate with Al {pre. Ahl} does not listen to us. By this we distinguish the inspired statement of truth from the inspired statement of error.
7 Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from Al {pre. Ahl}, and everyone who loves has been born from Al {pre. Ahl} and knows Al {pre. Ahl}. 8 Whoever does not love has not come to know Al {pre. Ahl}, because Al {pre. Ahl} is ahavah. 9 By this the love of Al {pre. Ahl} was revealed in our case, that Al {pre. Ahl} sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might gain life through him. 10 The love is in this respect, not that we have loved Al {pre. Ahl}, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.
11 Beloved ones, if this is how Al {pre. Ahl} loved us, then we are also under obligation to love one another. 12 No one has seen Al {pre. Ahl} at any time. If we continue loving one another, Al {pre. Ahl} remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. 13 By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has given his spirit to us. 14 In addition, we ourselves have seen and are bearing witness that the Father has sent his Son as savior of the world. 15 Whoever acknowledges that Iesoh {Aram. Yshoa} is Al {pre. Ahl}’s Son, Al {pre. Ahl} remains in union with such one and he in union with Al {pre. Ahl}. 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that Al {pre. Ahl} has for us.
Al {pre. Ahl} is ahavah, and the one who remains in love remains in union with Al {pre. Ahl} and Al {pre. Ahl} remains in union with him. 17 In this way love has been made perfect in us, so that we may have freeness of speech in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, so are we ourselves in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts fear out, because fear restrains us. Indeed, the one who is fearful has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love, because he first loved us.
20 If anyone says, “I love Al {pre. Ahl},” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For the one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love Al {pre. Ahl}, whom he has not seen. 21 And we have this commandment from him, that whoever loves Al {pre. Ahl} must also love his brother.