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The Great Bible 1539
| 4:1 | Dearly beloued beleue not euery sprete: but proue the spretes, whether they are of god or not, for many false prophetes are gone out into the worlde. |
| 4:2 | Herby shall ye knowe the sprete of God. Euery sprete that confesseth that Iesu Christ is come in the fleshe is of God. |
| 4:3 | And euery sprete which confesseth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe, is not of God. And this is that sprete of Antichrist, of whom ye haue hearde, howe that he shulde come: and euen now alredy is he in the worlde. |
| 4:4 | Lyttell chyldren, ye are of God, and haue ouercome them: for greater is he that is in you, then he that is in the worlde. |
| 4:5 | They are of the worlde, therfore speake they of the worlde, and the worlde heareth them. |
| 4:6 | We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth vs: he that is not of God, heareth vs not. Herby knowe we the sprete of veritie, and the sprete of erroure. |
| 4:7 | Dearly beloued let vs loue one another: for loue commeth of God. And euery one that loueth, is borne of God, and knoweth God. |
| 4:8 | He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue. |
| 4:9 | In this appeared the loue of God to vs ward, because that God sent hys onely begotten sonne into the worlde, that we might liue thorow him. |
| 4:10 | Herin is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, & sent hys sonne to be the agrement for oure synnes. |
| 4:11 | Dearly beloued, yf God so loued vs, we ought also to loue one another. |
| 4:12 | No man hath sene God at eny tyme. If we loue one another, God dwelleth in vs, & hys loue is parfect in vs. |
| 4:13 | Herby knowe we that we dwell in hym, and he in vs: because he hath geuen vs of hys sprete. |
| 4:14 | And we haue sene, & do testifye, that the father sent the sonne to be the sauyour of the worlde. |
| 4:15 | Whosoeuer confesseth, that Iesus is the sonne God, in him dwelleth God, & he in God. |
| 4:16 | And we haue knowen and beleued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue, & he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
| 4:17 | Here in is the loue perfect in vs, that we shuld haue trust in the daye of iudgement: For as he is, euen so are we in this worlde. |
| 4:18 | Ther is no feare in loue, but parfect loue casteth out feare, for feare hath paynfulnes. He that feareth, is not parfect in lone. |
| 4:19 | We loue him, for he loued vs fyrst. |
| 4:20 | If a man say, I loue God, and yet hate his brother, he is a liar. For how can he that loued not hys brother whom he hath sene, loue God whom he hath not sene? |
| 4:21 | And this commaundement haue we of hym: that he which loueth God, shuld loue his brother also. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."