1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3. and every spirit which confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.
4. Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.