1 John 4:2-3

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2 By this you know the Spirit of God: ¹every spirit that confesses that ²Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

3 and every spirit ³that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and ⁴now is in the world already.

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1. 4:2 [1 Cor. 12:3]
2. 4:2 2 John 7
3. 4:3 ch. 2:22; 2 John 7
4. 4:3 ch. 2:18; [2 Thess. 2:3-7]

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