Book of Common Prayer

¹⁸ Little children, let us not be loving with word nor tongue, but in deed and truth. ¹⁹ And by this, we will know that we are of ^[a] the truth, and we will persuade^[b] our heart before Him. ²⁰ Because^[c] if our heart is condemning^[d] us, we know that God is greater^[e] than our hearts, and He knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart is not condemning us, we have confidence^[f] before God. ²² And whatever we are asking, we are receiving from Him, because we are keeping His commandments and doing the pleasing things in His sight. ²³ And this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and that we be loving one another, just as He gave us the commandment. ²⁴ And the one keeping His commandments is abiding in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He is abiding in us: from the Spirit Whom He gave to us.

Test The Spirits. The Spirit From God Confesses Christ

4 Beloved, do not be believing every spirit, but be testing the spirits^[g] to see if they are from God, because many false-prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know^[h] the Spirit^[i] of God: every spirit that is confessing Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh is from God. ³ And every spirit that is not confessing Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist— which, you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. ⁴ You are from^[j] God, little children, and you have overcome them, because greater is the One in you than the one in the world. ⁵ They are from^[k] the world. For this reason they are speaking from the world, and the world is listening-to them. ⁶ We are from God. The one knowing God is listening-to us. He who is not from God is not listening-to us. From this, we know the Spirit^[l] of truth and the spirit of error^[m].

After Commissioning The Twelve, Jesus Moves On To Teach In Other Cities

11 And it came about that when Jesus finished giving-directions to His twelve disciples, He passed-on from there that He might teach and proclaim in their cities.

John The Baptist Asks, Are You The King? Jesus Points Him To His Works

² Now John^[a], having in prison heard-of the works of the Christ, having sent through his disciples, ³ said to Him, “Are You the One coming^[b], or should we be looking-for a different one?” ⁴ And having responded, Jesus said to them, “Having gone, report to John the things which you are hearing and seeing^[c]— ⁵ blind ones are seeing-again and lame ones are walking. Lepers are being cleansed and deaf ones are hearing. And dead ones are being raised and poor ones are having-good-news-announced^[d] to them. ⁶ And blessed is whoever does not take-offense^[e] in Me”.