3and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.
4Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
5They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them.
6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
