1 John 4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
Note Or spirit
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.
We 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.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- We are
- 1 John 4:4; Micah 3:8; Romans 1:1; 1 Corinthians 2:12–14; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 1:17
- he that knoweth
- 1 John 4:8; Luke 10:22; John 8:19, 45–50; John 10:27; John 13:20; John 18:37; John 20:21; 1 Corinthians 14:37; 2 Corinthians 10:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:8
- Hereby
- 1 John 4:1; Isaiah 8:20
- the spirit of truth
- John 14:17; John 15:26
- and
- Isaiah 29:10; Hosea 4:12; Micah 2:11; Romans 11:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11