In back of every teaching there is a spirit. 1 John 4:7, CSB: "Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:7 - 4:16. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. g. God is love: There are few people who really know and really believe that God is love. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. He tells them in verse 7 that "he who loves is born of God and knows God." Chapter 4 1. [⇑ See verse text ⇑] This verse begins the second major section of this chapter, returning to the theme of love. God tells us not to believe every spirit. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. If the teaching is false then the spirits involved in that teaching are evil spirits. Let us love one another — From the doctrine he has just been defending, he draws this exhortation: as if he had said, Think it not enough speculatively to admit the Christian doctrine, but let it be your great care to acknowledge it practically, and especially with respect to that most important article, brotherly love. The person who is born of God is one who loves. 1 John 4:7-21 - NIV: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Now viewing scripture range from the book of 1 John chapter 4:7 through chapter 4:16... 1 John Chapter 4. Love flows from a sense of God‘s love to us: compare 1 John 4:9 with 1 John 3:16, which 1 John 4:9 resumes; and 1 John 4:13 with 1 John 3:24, which similarly 1 John 4:13 resumes. Resumption of the main theme (1 John 2:29).Love, the sum of righteousness, is the test of our being born of God. 1 John 3:10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. He encourages them to love "in deed and in truth" in 3:18. If the teaching is true; if it lines up with the bible then the spirit involved is the holy spirit. v. The Bible also tells us that God is spirit (John 4:24), God is light (1 John 1:5), and that God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29). John chapter 4 KJV (King James Version) 1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,. 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