³ Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus ^[a]accursed, and ^(A)no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

² By this you know the Spirit of God: ^(A)Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, ³ and every spirit that does not confess ^[a]that Jesus ^[b]Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered and said, ^(A)“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, ^(B)for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but ^(C)My Father who is in heaven.

^5 (A)Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but ^(B)our sufficiency is from God,

⁹ that ^(A)if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

The Coming Rejection

^26 (A)“But when the ^[a]Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(B)He will testify of Me.

^13 (A)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.

⁶ yet ^(A)for us there is one God, the Father, ^(B)of whom are all things, and we for Him; and ^(C)one Lord Jesus Christ, ^(D)through whom are all things, and ^(E)through whom we live.

⁴³ He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: