Bible Verses / New Testament / John
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”