In Context

4 Ye — of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.

5 They — of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

6 we — of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son — the only begotten — hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

1 John 4:7 in Other Translations