1 John 4:2-3
English Standard Version
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.
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1 John 4:2-3
The Message
2-3 Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God. And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!
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