¹Milovaní, neverte každému duchu, ale zkúšajte duchov, či sú z Boha, pretože mnohí falošní proroci vyšli do sveta.

¹Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

²Po tomto znajte Ducha Božieho: každý duch, ktorý vyznáva Ježiša Krista, prišlého v tele, je z Boha;

²in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

³a každý duch, ktorý nevyznáva Ježiša Krista, prišlého v tele, nie je z Boha, a to je ten duch antikristov, o ktorom duchu ste počuli, že prijde, a je už aj teraz na svete.

³and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.

⁴Vy ste z Boha, dieťatká, a zvíťazili ste nad nimi, pretože ten, ktorý je vo vás, je väčší ako ten, ktorý je vo svete.

⁴Ye — of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who [is] in you, than he who is in the world.

⁵Oni sú zo sveta, preto hovoria zo sveta, a svet ich čuje.

⁵They — of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

⁶My sme z Boha: kto zná Boha, čuje nás; kto nie je z Boha, nečuje nás. Ztadiaľ známe ducha pravdy a ducha bludu.

⁶we — of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

⁷Milovaní, milujme jedni druhých, pretože láska je z Boha, a každý, kto miluje, narodil sa z Boha a zná Boha.

⁷Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

⁸Ten, kto nemiluje, nepoznal Boha, pretože Bôh je láska.

⁸he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

⁹V tom sa zjavila láska Božia v nás, že svojho Syna, jednorodeného, poslal Bôh na svet, aby sme žili skrze neho.

⁹In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son — the only begotten — hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

¹⁰V tomto je láska: nie že by sme my boli milovali Boha, ale že on miloval nás a poslal svojho Syna jako smierenie za naše hriechy.

¹⁰in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

¹¹Milovaní, ak nás Bôh tak miloval, aj my sme povinní milovať jeden druhého.

¹¹Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

¹²Boha nikto nikdy nevidel; keď milujeme jeden druhého, Bôh zostáva v nás, a jeho láska je v nás dokonaná.

¹²God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

¹³Po tom známe, že zostávame v ňom a on v nás, že nám dal zo svojho Ducha.

¹³in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

¹⁴A my sme videli a svedčíme, že Otec poslal Syna za Spasiteľa sveta.

¹⁴And we — we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son — Saviour of the world;

¹⁵Ktokoľvek vyzná, že Ježiš je Syn Boží, Bôh zostáva v ňom a on v Bohu.

¹⁵whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

¹⁶A my sme poznali a uverili lásku, ktorú má Bôh v nás. Bôh je láska, a ten, kto zostáva v láske, zostáva v Bohu, a Bôh v ňom.

¹⁶and we — we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

¹⁷V tom je dokonaná láska s nami, aby sme mali smelú dôveru v deň súdu, lebo jako je on, tak sme aj my na tomto svete.

¹⁷In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we — we also are in this world;

¹⁸Bázne nieto v láske, ale dokonalá láska vyháňa bázeň, pretože bázeň má trápenie, a ten, kto sa bojí, nie je dokonaný v láske.

¹⁸fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

¹⁹My milujeme jeho, preto že on prvý miloval nás.

¹⁹we — we love him, because He — He first loved us;

²⁰Keby niekto povedal: Milujem Boha, a svojho brata by nenávidel, je lhár; lebo ten, kto nemiluje svojho brata, ktorého videl, ako môže milovať Boha, ktorého nevidel?!

²⁰if any one may say — `I love God,` and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God — whom he hath not seen — how is he able to love?

²¹A toto prikázanie máme od neho, aby ten, kto miluje Boha, miloval i svojho brata.

²¹and this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.