² By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(A)every spirit that confesses that ^(B)Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ and every spirit ^(C)that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and ^(D)now is in the world already.

^15 (A)Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes ^(A)that Jesus is the Son of God?