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Dear friends, don't trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Here is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua the Messiah came as a human being is from God,
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and every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God - in fact, this is the spirit of the Anti-Messiah. You have heard that he is coming. Well, he's here now, in the world already!
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You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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They are from the world; therefore, they speak from the world's viewpoint; and the world listens to them.
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We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God doesn't listen to us. This is how we distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
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Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God.
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Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love.
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Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life.
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Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the kapparah for our sins.