1 John 4:2-3

2 This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh^[a] is from God.

3 But every spirit who does not confess Jesus^[b] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or confesses Jesus to be the Christ come in the flesh
• [b]. Other mss read confess that Jesus has come in the flesh