6 Bible Verses about Testing Spirits
Most Relevant Verses
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
and to another the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and to another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues, and to another an interpretation of tongues;
By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.read more.
They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them. 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.
but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] if these things were so.
and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fitted for every good work.
