¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

¹[Ny amin'ny fampianarana sandoka, sy ny tokony hitiavantsika ny rahalahy, ary ny hanekentsika ny fanambaran'Andriamanitra ny Zanany] Ry malala, aza mino ny fanahy rehetra, fa izahao toetra ny fanahy, na avy amin'Andriamanitra ireny, na tsia, satria maro ny mpaminany sandoka efa lasa any amin'izao tontolo izao.

²Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;

²Izao no ahafantaranareo ny Fanahin'Andriamanitra: Ny fanahy rehetra izay manaiky fa efa tonga tamin'ny nofo Jesosy Kristy no avy amin'Andriamanitra;

³and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.

³ary ny fanahy rehetra izay tsy manaiky an'i Jesosy dia tsy mba avy amin'Andriamanitra; ary izany no fanahin'ny antikristy, izay efa renareo fa ho avy, sady efa eo amin'izao tontolo izao sahady izy.

⁴*Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.

⁴Anaka, ianareo dia avy amin'Andriamanitra ary efa naharesy ireny, satria lehibe Izay ao aminareo noho izay ao amin'izao tontolo izao.

⁵*They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

⁵Isan'izao tontolo izao ireny, ka dia miteny araka ny an'izao tontolo izao izy, ary mihaino azy izao tontolo izao.

⁶*We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

⁶Avy amin'Andriamanitra izahay; izay mahalala an'Andriamanitra no mihaino anay; Izay tsy avy amin'Andriamanitra tsy mba mihaino anay. Izany no ahafantarantsika ny fanahin'ny fahamarinana sy ny fanahin'ny fampiviliana.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.

⁷Ry malala, aoka hifankatia isika; fa avy amin'Andriamanitra ny fitiavana, ary Izay rehetra tia no naterak'Andriamanitra sady mahalala an'Andriamanitra.

⁸He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

⁸Izay tsy tia dia tsy mba mahalala an'Andriamanitra; fa Andriamanitra dia fitiavana.

⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

⁹Izao no nanehoana ny fitiavan'Andriamanitra antsika: Andriamanitra naniraka ny Zanani-lahy Tokana tamin'izao tontolo izao, mba hahavelona antsika amin'ny alalany.

¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹⁰Izao no fitiavana: tsy ny nitiavantsika an'Andriamanitra fa ny nitiavany antsika, ka nirahiny ny Zanany ho avotra'noho ny fahotantsika.

¹¹Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

¹¹Ry malala, raha izany no nitiavan'Andriamanitra antsika, dia mba tokony hifankatia kosa isika.

¹²No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

¹²Tsy mbola nisy olona nahita an'Andriamanitra na oviana na oviana. Raha mifankatia isika, dia mitoetra ato amintsika Andriamanitra, ary tanteraka ato amintsika ny fitiavany. [ Na: ny fitiavana Azy]

¹³Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.

¹³Izao no ahafantarantsika fa mitoetra ao aminy isika, ary Izy ato amintsika, dia ny nanomezany antsika ny Fanahiny.

¹⁴And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.

¹⁴Ary izahay efa nahita ka manambara fa ny Ray efa naniraka ny Zanaka ho Mpamonjy izao tontolo izao.

¹⁵Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹⁵Na iza na iza manaiky fa Zanak'Andriamanitra Jesosy, dia mitoetra ao aminy Andriamanitra, ary izy kosa ao amin'Andriamanitra.

¹⁶And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

¹⁶Ary isika efa mahalala sy mino ny fitiavan'Andriamanitra antsika. Andriamanitra dia fitiavana; ary izay mitoetra amin'ny fitiavana no mitoetra ao amin'Andriamanitra, ary Andriamanitra ao aminy.

¹⁷Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.

¹⁷Izany no ahatanterahana ny fitiavana amintsika, mba hananantsika fahasahiana amin'ny andro fitsarana; fa tahaka Azy isika eo amin'izao tontolo izao.

¹⁸There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.

¹⁸Tsy manan-tahotra ny fitiavana; fa ny fitiavana tanteraka mandroaka ny tahotra; fa mampahory ny tahotra. Fa izay matahotra dia tsy mbola tanteraka amin'ny fitiavana.

¹⁹*We* love because *he* has first loved us.

¹⁹Isika tia, satria Izy efa dia antsika taloha.

²⁰If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²⁰Raha misy manao hoe: Tia an'Andriamanitra aho, nefa mankahala ny rahalahiny, dia mpandainga izy; fa izay tsy tia ny rahalahiny izay hitany, hataony ahoana no fitia an'Andriamanitra Izay tsy hitany?Ary izao no didy efa azontsika taminy: Izay tia an'Andriamanitra dia tsy maintsy tia ny rahalahiny koa.

²¹And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.

²¹Ary izao no didy efa azontsika taminy: Izay tia an'Andriamanitra dia tsy maintsy tia ny rahalahiny koa.