1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.