1 John 4:1-3 (2:1) BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Sawyer⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ ^(2:1) BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, ³ 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.