| 1 ايها الاحباء لا تصدقوا كل روح بل امتحنوا الارواح هل هي من الله لان انبياء كذبة كثيرين قد خرجوا الى العالم. | 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. |
| 2 بهذا تعرفون روح الله. كل روح يعترف بيسوع المسيح انه قد جاء في الجسد فهو من الله. | 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, |
| 3 وكل روح لا يعترف بيسوع المسيح انه قد جاء في الجسد فليس من الله. وهذا هو روح ضد المسيح الذي سمعتم انه يأتي والآن هو في العالم. | 3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already. |
| 4 انتم من الله ايها الاولاد وقد غلبتموهم لان الذي فيكم اعظم من الذي في العالم. | 4 Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. |
| 5 هم من العالم. من اجل ذلك يتكلمون من العالم والعالم يسمع لهم. | 5 They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them. |
| 6 نحن من الله فمن يعرف الله يسمع لنا ومن ليس من الله لا يسمع لنا. من هذا نعرف روح الحق وروح الضلال. | 6 We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. |
| 7 ايها الاحباء لنحب بعضنا بعضا لان المحبة هي من الله وكل من يحب فقد ولد من الله ويعرف الله. | 7 Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| 8 ومن لا يحب لم يعرف الله لان الله محبة. | 8 He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. |
| 9 بهذا أظهرت محبة الله فينا ان الله قد ارسل ابنه الوحيد الى العالم لكي نحيا به. | 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. |
| 10 في هذه هي المحبة ليس اننا نحن احببنا الله بل انه هو احبنا وارسل ابنه كفارة لخطايانا | 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. |
| 11 ايها الاحباء ان كان الله قد احبنا هكذا ينبغي لنا ايضا ان يحب بعضنا بعضا. | 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| 12 الله لم ينظره احد قط. ان احب بعضنا بعضا فالله يثبت فينا ومحبته قد تكملت فينا. | 12 No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. |
| 13 بهذا نعرف اننا نثبت فيه وهو فينا انه قد اعطانا من روحه. | 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit. |
| 14 ونحن قد نظرنا ونشهد ان الآب قد ارسل الابن مخلّصا للعالم. | 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world. |
| 15 من اعترف ان يسوع هو ابن الله فالله يثبت فيه وهو في الله. | 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. |
| 16 ونحن قد عرفنا وصدقنا المحبة التي للّه فينا. الله محبة ومن يثبت في المحبة يثبت في الله والله فيه. | 16 So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. |
| 17 بهذا تكملت المحبة فينا ان يكون لنا ثقة في يوم الدين لانه كما هو في هذا العالم هكذا نحن ايضا. | 17 In this is love perfected with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so are we in this world. |
| 18 لا خوف في المحبة بل المحبة الكاملة تطرح الخوف الى خارج لان الخوف له عذاب واما من خاف فلم يتكمل في المحبة. | 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love. |
| 19 نحن نحبه لانه هو احبنا اولا. | 19 We love, because he first loved us. |
| 20 ان قال احد اني احب الله وابغض اخاه فهو كاذب. لان من لا يحب اخاه الذي ابصره كيف يقدر ان يحب الله الذي لم يبصره. | 20 If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. |
| 21 ولنا هذه الوصية منه ان من يحب الله يحب اخاه ايضا | 21 And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also. |
