1 John 4:1-3

Testing the Spirits

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus ^[a] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

Footnotes

• [a] BYZ and TR that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh