Verš 1
Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Jer 29:8 - For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not allow your prophets and your diviners, who are in your midst, to seduce you. And you should pay no attention to your dreams, which you are dreaming.
Mt 24:4 - And answering, Jesus said to them: “Pay attention, lest someone lead you astray.
Ef 5:6 - Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief.
Kol 2:18 - Let no one seduce you, preferring base things and a religion of Angels, walking according to what he has not seen, being vainly inflated by the sensations of his flesh,
Mt 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
1Kor 14:29 - And let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
1Sol 5:21 - But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good.
Mt 24:5 - For many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ.’ And they will lead many astray.
Mt 24:24 - For there will arise false Christs and false prophets. And they will produce great signs and wonders, so much so as to lead into error even the elect (if this could be).
2Pt 2:1 - But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be among you lying teachers, who will introduce divisions of perdition, and they will deny him who bought them, the Lord, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2Jn 1:7 - For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has arrived in the flesh. Such a one as this is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Verš 3
and every spirit who contradicts Jesus is not of God. And this one is the Antichrist, the one that you have heard is coming, and even now he is in the world.
1Jn 2:22 - Who is a liar, other than he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
1Jn 2:18 - Little sons, it is the last hour. And, as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have arrived. By this, we know that it is the last hour.
2Sol 2:7 - For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. And only one now holds back, and will continue to hold back, until he is taken from our midst.
Verš 6
We are of God. Whoever knows God, listens to us. Whoever is not of God, does not listen to us. In this way, we know the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
Jn 8:47 - Whoever is of God, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them: because you are not of God.”
Jn 10:27 - My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me.
Verš 9
The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
Jn 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
Rim 5:8 - But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
Verš 10
In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
Rim 3:24 - We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
2Kor 5:19 - For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the 666 world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation.
Kol 1:19 - For the Father is well-pleased that all fullness reside in him,
Rim 3:25 - whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,
1Jn 2:2 - And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world.
Verš 12
No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Ex 33:20 - And again he said: “You are not able to see my face. For man shall not see me and live.”
Dt 4:12 - And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of fire. You heard the voice of his words, but you did not see any form at all.
Jn 1:18 - No one ever saw God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he himself has described him.
1Tim 1:17 - So then, to the King of ages, to the immortal, invisible, solitary God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1Tim 6:16 - who alone holds immortality, and who inhabits the inaccessible light, whom no man has seen, nor even is able to see, to whom is honor and everlasting dominion. Amen.
1Jn 3:24 - And those who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And we know that he abides in us by this: by the Spirit, whom he has given to us.
Verš 20
If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?
1Jn 2:4 - Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Verš 21
And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.
Lv 19:18 - Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.
Mt 22:39 - But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Jn 13:34 - I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.
Jn 15:12 - This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Ef 5:2 - And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
1Sol 4:9 - But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.
1Pt 4:8 - But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.
1Jn 3:23 - And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1Jn 4,1 - Pravdepodobne alúzia na charizmy a na ich rozoznávanie (porov. 2 Kor 11, 14; 13, 5; 1 Sol 5, 21).
1Jn 4,2-3 - Porov. pozn. k 2, 22.
1Jn 4,4 - Zvíťazili ste nad nimi, t. j. nad nepravými prorokmi. Boh, ktorý je v nás skrze Svätého Ducha, je väčší a mocnejší ako satan.
1Jn 4,6 - "My", čiže apoštoli a vôbec praví hlásatelia Ježiša. Hovoria z Boha, čiže pravdu zjavenú Bohom. Z toho, či ich niekto počúva, dá sa spoznať, či je v ňom Duch pravdy (Jn 14, 17; 15, 26; 16, 13; 1 Kor 2, 12), alebo duch bludu, čiže či sa dáva viesť satanom, ktorý je otcom lži a bludu (Jn 8, 44).
1Jn 4,9 - Porov. Jn 3, 16.
1Jn 4,10 - Porov. 2, 2; Rim 5, 8; Ef 2, 4–5; 1 Tim 1, 15.
1Jn 4,13 - "Že nám dal zo svojho Ducha," t. j. dal nám spoločenstvo s Duchom Svätým a účasť na jeho daroch.
1Jn 4,18 - Synovská láska a otrocký strach sa navzájom vylučujú. Ale synovský strach, že nedostatočne miluje, je znakom lásky.
