1 John 4:1-9

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 In this know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and that now it is already in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world; therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

6 We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. Anyone that loves is born of God and knows God.

8 He that does not love does not know God, for God is charity.

9 In this was the charity of God demonstrated in us, in that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.