1 John 4:1-3 Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this the Spirit of God is known: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is of God, ³ and every spirit that doesn’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is not of God; indeed, this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming—actually, it is already in the world right now.