And he confessed and denied not, and confessed, I am not the Christ.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for already the Jews had agreed that if any one confessed him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue;

and many of those who believed came and confessed, and showed their practices.

No one that denies the Son has the Father; he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God.