Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: 1 John | Page 3

cannot habitually
sin--because he is a child of God. 003:010 By this we can distinguish
God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act
righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
003:011 For this is the Message you have heard from the beginning--
that we are to love one another. 003:012 We are not to resemble Cain,
who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why
did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's
actions righteous. 003:013 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world
hates you. 003:014 As for us, we know that we have already passed out
of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is
destitute of love continues dead. 003:015 Every one who hates his
brother man is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has the Life
of the Ages continuing in him. 003:016 We know what love is--through
Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way
we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men. 003:017 But if any
one has this world's wealth and sees that his brother man is in need, and
yet hardens his heart against him-- how can such a one continue to love
God? 003:018 Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the
lips, but in deed and in truth. 003:019 And in this way we shall come to
know that we are loyal to the truth, and shall satisfy our consciences in
His presence 003:020 in whatever matters our hearts condemn
us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.
003:021 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have perfect
confidence towards God; 003:022 and whatever we ask for we obtain
from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are
pleasing in His sight. 003:023 And this is His command--that we are to
believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has
commanded us to do. 003:024 The man who obeys His commands
continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and

through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He
continues in union with us. 004:001 Dear friends, do not believe every
spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God;
for many false teachers have gone out into the world. 004:002 The test
by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which
acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God, 004:003
and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about
Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have
heard, and it is already in the world. 004:004 As for you, dear children,
you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater
is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 004:005 They are the
world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the
world listens to them. We are God's children. 004:006 The man who is
beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God
does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth
from the spirit of error. 004:007 Dear friends, let us love one another;
for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a
child of God and is beginning to know God. 004:008 He who is
destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is
love. 004:009 God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent
His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.
004:010 This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and
sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 004:011 Dear
friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
004:012 No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God
continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our
hearts. 004:013 We can know that we are continuing in union with Him
and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given
us a portion of His Spirit. 004:014 And we have seen and bear witness
that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 004:015
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of