¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹Deihtakte aw, kha napeuh gingta kei un, a hihhangin khate tuh Pathian akipan ahi uhiam hi lou chian un; jawlnei taklou tampi khovela a napawt tak jiak un.

²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

²Hiaiah Pathian Kha na thei ding uh, bang kha peuh Jesu Kris sain ahongpai chih gum tuh, Pathian akipan ahi;

³and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

³Bang kha peuh Jesu gum lou tuh, Pathian akipan ahi kei; huai tuh Kris doumi kha, hongpai ding na jak uh ahi; tuin khovel ah a om khinpah hi.

⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

⁴Naute aw, Pathian akipan na hi ua, tuate na zouta uhi; noumaua om tuh khovela om sanga a thupijawk jiakin.

⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

⁵Amau tuh khovela ahi ua; huaijiakin khovela bangin a pau ua, khovelin a thu uh a ngaikhe naknak.

⁶We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

⁶Eite Pathian akipan i hi ua, Pathian theimiten i thu angaikhe jel uhi; Pathian akipanlou miten i thu a ngaikhe kei naknak uh. Hiai khawnga Thutak Kha leh thutaklou kha i thei uhi.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

⁷Deihtakte aw, i kiit tuah chiat ding uh; itna Pathiana suak ahi ngala, mi chih itna nei peuhmah tuh Pathianaa suak ahi khin uhi, Pathian a thei lai uhi.

⁸He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

⁸itna neilouin Pathian a theikei; Pathian lah itna ahi ngala.

⁹By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

⁹Hiaiah Pathian itna i tung ua a honglangta, amah vanga i hin theihna dingin Pathianin a Tapa neihsun khovela a honsawlna ah;

¹⁰In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “hilasmos,” an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. for our sins.

¹⁰Hiaiah itna a om, eiten Pathian i it uh ka chi ahi kei, amahin ahonit a, i khelhnate thuphatawina hi dingin, a Tapa a honsawl ka chi ahi jaw.

¹¹Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

¹¹Deihtakte aw, Pathianin huchi tela a honit leh, eite leng i kiit tuah chiat ding hi.

¹²No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

¹²Kuamahin chiklai mahin Pathian a mu ngei kei. i kiit tuah chiat uleh Pathian eimau ah a om gige dia, a itna leng eimau ah a kim lai ding hi.

¹³By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

¹³Amah ah i om gige chih leh amah eimau ah a om gige chih hiaiah i thei, a Kha a honpiak tak jiakin.

¹⁴We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

¹⁴Huan, Pain Tapa khovel Hondampa hihna neiin a honsawl chih i muta ua, i theisak uhi.

¹⁵Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

¹⁵Kuapeuh Jesu Pathian Tapa ahi, chia gum tuh, amah ah Pathian a om gige a, amah leng Pathian ah a om gige a, amah leng Pathian a om gige hi.

¹⁶We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

¹⁶Pathianin eimaua dia itna a neih tuh i thei ua, i gingta lai uhi. Pathian itna ahi; itnaa om gige tuh, Pathian ah a om gigea, Pathian leng amahah a om gige ahi.

¹⁷In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

¹⁷Hiaiah i tunguah itna a kimta, vaihawm nia ding lau loua i om theihna ah; amah om banga khovela i om jiakin.

¹⁸There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

¹⁸itan ah tuh launa himhim a om kei, itan kimin lauhna a delhkhe zo jel hi, lauhna in gawtna hon-ngaihtuahsak; a laumi tuh itna ah a kim tadih kei ahi.

¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us.

¹⁹Aman a honit masak jiakin, i it uhi.

²⁰If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²⁰Min, Pathian ka it, chiin, a unau ho ngal leh, amah tuh juauthei ahi; a unau a muhsa bawn a it ken, Pathian a muh ngei louhpi bangchin a it thei dia?Amah kianga kipanin hiai thupiak i nei uh, Kuapeuhin Pathian a it leh, a unau leng a it sam ding ahi, chih.

²¹This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

²¹Amah kianga kipanin hiai thupiak i nei uh, Kuapeuhin Pathian a it leh, a unau leng a it sam ding ahi, chih.