1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
2In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,
3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is not of God; and this is that of the antichrist, which you heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.
4You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them; because greater is He who [is] in you, than he who is in the world.