⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.^(A)

¹¹ and many false prophets^(A) will appear and deceive many people.^(B)

¹³ while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse,^(A) deceiving and being deceived.^(B)

On Denying the Incarnation

4 Dear friends,^(A) do not believe every spirit,^(B) but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.^(C)

⁷ I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ^(A) as coming in the flesh,^(B) have gone out into the world.^(C) Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.^(D)