You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you(A) is greater than the one who is in the world.(B) They are from the world.(C) Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us;(D) anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.(E)

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You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore[a] they speak from the world and the world listens to them. We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:5 Literally “because of this”