Scripture References
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| Citation | Articles | Verse |
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| 1 John 4:1 | Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. agreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the church. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the pastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. | |
| 1 John 4:10 | In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. | |
| 1 John 4:16 |
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And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him. |
| 1 John 4:18 | Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath sin. And he that feareth is not perfected in charity. fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, which makes men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of servile fear, which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the offence offered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of God's judgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and trembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil. 2.12. | |
| 1 John 4:19 | Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us. |