1 John 4:6

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

We 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.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

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

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

Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’

“He said, ‘I will go, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “He said, ‘You will entice him, and will prevail also. Go and do so.’

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

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

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

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.