12 No one has ever seen God if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.ġ3 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.ħ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever knows God listens to us whoever is not from God does not listen to us. 5 They are from the world therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Battlefield of the mind 2006