The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP IIII.

1 Difference of spirits. 2 How the Spirit of God may be knowen from the spirit of errour. 7 Of the loue of God and of our neighbours.

1 DErely beloued, beleue not euerie spirit, but trye thea 1.1 spirits whether they are of God: for many false Prophetes are gone out into the worlde.

2 Hereby shall ye knowe the Spirit of God, Euerie spirit that cōfesseth that Iesusb 1.2 Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.

3 And euerie spirit whiche confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God but this is the (spirit) of Antichrist, of whome ye haue heard, how that he shulde come andc 1.3 now already he is in the worlde.

4 Litle children, ye are of God, and haue ouer∣come them: for greater is he that is in you, thend 1.4 he that is in the worlde.

5 They are of the worlde, therefore speake they of the worlde, and the worlde heareth them.* 1.5

6 We are of God, * he that knoweth God,e 1.6 heareth vs: he that is not of God, heareth vs not. Here by knowe we the Spirit of trueth, and the spirit of errour.

7 Beloued, let vs loue one another: for loue cometh of God, and euerie one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.* 1.7

9 Inf 1.8 this appeared the loue of God towarde vs, because God sent his onely begotten Sonne into the worlde, that we might liue through him.

10 Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne (to be) ag 1.9 reconciliation for our sinnes.

11 Beloued, if God so loued vs, we ought also loue one another.

12 * No man hathe sene God at any time. If we* 1.10 loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, and* 1.11 his loue is persite in vs.

13 Hereby knowe we, that we dwell in hym, and he in vs: because he hath giuen vs of his Spirit.

14 And we haue sene, and do testifie, that the Father sent the Sonne (to be) the Sauiour of the worlde.

15 Whosoeuerh 1.12 confesseth that Iesus is the Sonne of God, in him dwelleth God, and he in God.

16 And we haue knowen, and beleued the loue that God hathe“ 1.13i 1.14 in vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, & God in hym.

17 Herein is the loue perfite in vs, that we shuld haue boldenes in the day of iudgemēt for as he is, euen so are we in this worlde.

18 There is nok 1.15 feare in loue, but perfect loue casteth out feare: for feare hathe painfulnes: and he that feareth, is not perfect in loue.

19 We loue him, because he loued vs first.

20 If anie man say, I loue God, and hate his brother, he is a lyer: forl 1.16 how can he that loueth not his brother whom he hathe sene loue God whome he hathe not sene?

21 * And this commandement haue we of him* 1.17 that he whiche loueth God, shulde loue hys brother also.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Them whiche boast: that they haue the Spirit to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or pto∣phecie.
• b 1.2

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 being ve∣ry God came frō his Father & toke vpō him our flesh He that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or preacheth this truely, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Spirit of God, els not.
• c 1.3

  He began to builde the miste∣rie of 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• d 1.4

  Satā the prince of the worlde.
• * 1.5

  Iohn. 8. 47.
• e 1.6

  With pute affe ction & obediēce
• * 1.7

  Iohn. 5. 10.
• f 1.8

  Trueth it is that God hathe decla∣red his loue in many other thīgs but herein hathe passed all other.
• g 1.9

  By his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 death.
• * 1.10

  Iohn. 1. 18.
• * 1.11

  1. Tim. 6. 15.
• h 1.12

  So that his con 〈◊〉〈◊〉 procedeth of faith.
• “ 1.13

  Or, towarde vs.
• i 1.14

  By inspiring it into vs.
• k 1.15

  Suche as shulde trouble the con∣science.
• l 1.16

  For god 〈◊〉〈◊〉 teth him self to vs in thē whiche beare his image.
• * 1.17

  Iohn. 13. 43. & 15. 〈◊〉〈◊〉