6 Bible Verses about Testing Spirits
Most Relevant Verses
Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.
And to another performances of powers; and to another discriminations of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:
In this ye know the spirit of God: Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit which acknowledges not Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that of antichrist which ye have heard comes; and now is already in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have conquered them: for greater is he in you, than he in the world.read more.
They are of the world: for this they speak of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God: he knowing God hears us; he is not of God who hears us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.
And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus. All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice: That the man of God might be perfect, finished for every good work.