---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 John from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 4
verse_count: 21
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 John, chap. 4, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 John 4

*Try the, spirits The excellency of love God is love.*

**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.
**2** Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; Every spirit that con confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God;
**3** And every spirit that confesseth not- that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now' it is already in the world.
**4** Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
**5** They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
**6** We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
**7** Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
**8** He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
**9** In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
**10** Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
**11** Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
**12** No man hath seen God at any time, except them who believe. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
**13** Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
**14** And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. I. JOHN.
**15** Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
**16** And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
**17** Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, so are we in this world.
**18** There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
**19** We love him, because he first loved us.
**20** If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
**21** And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.