1 John 4:2-6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has[a] come in the flesh(A) is from God.(B) 3 But every spirit who does not confess Jesus[b] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist;(C) you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.
4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you(D) is greater than the one who is in the world.(E) 5 They are from the world.(F) Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us;(G) anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.(H)
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- 1 John 4:2 Or confesses Jesus to be the Christ
- 1 John 4:3 Other mss read confess that Jesus has come in the flesh
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