Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 2016
New Testament
| 4:1 | Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. |
| 4:2 | By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is of God, |
| 4:3 | and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist, which you have heard was coming and even now it is already in the world. |
| 4:4 | 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. |
| 4:5 | They are of the world. Therefore they speak from the world, and the world hears them. |
| 4:6 | We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. |
| 4:7 | Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. |
| 4:8 | He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
| 4:9 | In this the love of God was manifested toward us, in that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. |
| 4:10 | In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
| 4:11 | Beloved, if God loved us so much, we also should love one another. |
| 4:12 | No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. |
| 4:13 | By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. |
| 4:14 | And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. |
| 4:15 | Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. |
| 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God has toward us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. |
| 4:17 | By this is our love perfected, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. |
| 4:18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears has not been made perfect in love. |
| 4:19 | We love Him because He first loved us. |
| 4:20 | If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; because, he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? |
| 4:21 | And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God should love his brother also. |
King James Bible 2016
Unlike most other modern versions, this Bible's text is based upon the same Hebrew Masoretic Text, and Greek Textus Receptus, of the King James Version of 1611.
In non Textus Receptus versions, the issue of having the best underlying manuscripts, is often overshadowed by the massive amount of omissions in the text. Because the KJV 2016 is not dealing with issues of omission and addition, the focus has been upon definition, and the KJV translators choices have been used as the benchmark.
One issue not often majored upon in the bible version debate is simply the way Greek words are defined. Many times, the NKJV leans upon the definition choices of modern versions as well as defaulting to Vines and Strong's definitions, which are almost always favorable to the Revised Version. In other words, one may have a correct text to translate from, but use erroneous modern version/modern dictionary definitions which change or distort the meaning of the words. Jay Green was accused of having a good TR bible but with "Alexandrian readings".
The KJV 2016 Edition rejects such erroneous modern definitions and restores the distinctness of historical KJV readings. The NKJV also tended to gravitate toward KJV marginal notes, which are in truth, rejected readings, and also toward Geneva Bible definitions, which the KJV had already cleared up.
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