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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1JN-4:1",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.1",
        "text": "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1JN-4:2",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.2",
        "text": "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1JN-4:3",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.3",
        "text": "and 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."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1JN-4:4",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.4",
        "text": "Ye 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."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1JN-4:5",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.5",
        "text": "They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them."
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1JN-4:6",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.6",
        "text": "We 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."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1JN-4:7",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.7",
        "text": "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1JN-4:8",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.8",
        "text": "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1JN-4:9",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.9",
        "text": "Herein 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."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1JN-4:10",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.10",
        "text": "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins."
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        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1JN-4:11",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.11",
        "text": "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1JN-4:12",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.12",
        "text": "No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:"
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1JN-4:13",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.13",
        "text": "hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1JN-4:14",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.14",
        "text": "And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1JN-4:15",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.15",
        "text": "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God."
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        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1JN-4:16",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.16",
        "text": "And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1JN-4:17",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.17",
        "text": "Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1JN-4:18",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.18",
        "text": "There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1JN-4:19",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.19",
        "text": "We love, because he first loved us."
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        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1JN-4:20",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.20",
        "text": "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1JN-4:21",
        "verseRef": "1JN.4.21",
        "text": "And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also."
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