5. Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world.
6. But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7. Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
8. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9. And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.