1 John 4:1-6 - How To Recognize The Spirit Of God

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God: ³ and whatever spirit confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is not from God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it comes, and is now already in the world.

⁴ You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you, is greater than he that is in the world. ⁵ They are of the world: there fore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.