New American Standard Bible 2020

1 John 4:1-6

1 1Beloved, do not believe every 2spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because 3many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: 4every spirit that 5confesses that 6Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3and every spirit that 7does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the 8antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and 9now it is already in the world. 4You are from God, 10little children, and 11have overcome them; because 12greater is He who is in you than 13he who is in the world. 5 14They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 15We are from God. 16The one who knows God listens to us; 17the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know 18the spirit of truth and 19the spirit of error.

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Notes

1. 1 John 4:1 3 John 11 ↩
2. 1 John 4:1 Jer 29:8; 1 Cor 12:10; 1 Thess 5:20f; 2 Thess 2:2 ↩
3. 1 John 4:1 Jer 14:14; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 John 2:18 ↩
4. 1 John 4:2 1 Cor 12:3 ↩
5. 1 John 4:2 1 John 2:23 ↩
6. 1 John 4:2 John 1:14; 1 John 1:2 ↩
7. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:22; 2 John 7 ↩
8. 1 John 4:3 1 John 2:18, 22 ↩
9. 1 John 4:3 2 Thess 2:3-7; 1 John 2:18 ↩
10. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:1 ↩
11. 1 John 4:4 1 John 2:13 ↩
12. 1 John 4:4 Rom 8:31; 1 John 3:20 ↩
13. 1 John 4:4 John 12:31 ↩
14. 1 John 4:5 John 15:19; 17:14, 16 ↩
15. 1 John 4:6 John 8:23; 1 John 4:4 ↩
16. 1 John 4:6 John 8:47; 10:3ff; 18:37 ↩
17. 1 John 4:6 1 Cor 14:37 ↩
18. 1 John 4:6 John 14:17 ↩
19. 1 John 4:6 1 Tim 4:1 ↩

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