\subsection{I John 4} \VS{1} Agape-beloved, be not believing every spirit, but be testing\footnote{or ``examining''} the spirits if they are from God, for many false-prophets are gone out into the world. \VS{2} By this you know the spirit of God: Every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ having come in [the] flesh is from God, \VS{3} and everyone which does not confess Jesus \footnote{insert ``having come in the flesh'' \hesychian \koine\ most; text: BA few lat} is not from God, and this [one] is the antichrist, whom you heard that he comes, and is now already in the world. \VS{4} You are from God, children, and you have conquered them, because greater is the [one] in you than the [one] in the world. \VS{5} They are from the world, because of this they speak from the world and the world hears them. \VS{6} We are from God. The [one] knowing God hears us, whoever is not from God does not hear us. From this we know that spirit of truth and the spirit of deception. \VS{7} Agape-beloved, let us be agape-loving one another, for agape-love is from God, and everyone agape-loving is begotten\fnGennao{} from God and knows God. \VS{8} The [one] not agape-loving has not known God, because God is agape-love. \VS{9} By this is the agape-love of God manifested in us, because God sent his uniquely-begotten\fnMonogenes{} son into the world in order that we zoe-live\fnZoe{} through him. \VS{10} In this is agape-love, not that we have agape-loved God, but that he agape-loved us and sent his son [an] appeasement for our sins. \VS{11} Agape-beloved, if God thus agape-loved us, we also ought to be agape-loving one another. \VS{12} No one has ever beheld God. If we be agape-loving one another, God abides in us and his agape-love is perfected\footnote{or ``completed''} in us. \VS{13} By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given to us from his spirit. \VS{14} And we have beheld and we testify that the father has sent his son [to be] savior of the world. \VS{15} Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God. \VS{16} And we have known and have believed the agape-love which God has in us. God is agape-love, and the one abiding in agape-love abides in God and God abides in him. \VS{17} By this is our agape-love perfected\footnote{[or ``completed'']}, in order that we have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as he is, we also are in this world. Fear is not in agape-love. \VS{18} But the perfection\footnote{or ``completion''} of agape-love throws out fear, because fear has punishment, but the [one] fearing is not perfected\footnote{or ``completed''} in agape-love. \VS{19} We agape-love because he first agape-loved us. \VS{20} If anyone says that he agape-loves God, and hates his brother, he is [a] liar. For the [one] not agape-loving his brother whom he has seen, is not able to be agape-loving the God whom he has not seen. \VS{21} And we have this commandment from him, that the [one] agape-loving God also be agape-loving his brother.