New American Standard Bible 1995

1 John 4:2-5

2By this you know the Spirit of God: 1every spirit that 2confesses that 3Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

3and every spirit that 4does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the 5antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and 6now it is already in the world.

4You are from God, 7little children, and 8have overcome them; because 9greater is He who is in you than 10he who is in the world.

5 11They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

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Notes

1. 1 John 4:2 1 Cor 12:3 ↩
2. 1 John 4:2 1 John 2:23 ↩
3. 1 John 4:2 John 1:14; 1 John 1:2 ↩
4. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:22; 2 John 7 ↩
5. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:18, 22 ↩
6. 1 John 4:3 2 Thess 2:3-7; 1 John 2:18 ↩
7. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:1 ↩
8. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:13 ↩
9. 1 John 4:4 Rom 8:31; 1 John 3:20 ↩
10. 1 John 4:4 John 12:31 ↩
11. 1 John 4:5 John 15:19; 17:14, 16 ↩

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