1 John 4:1-3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error

4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits^(A) to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

² This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has^[a] come in the flesh^(B) is from God.^{(C) 3} But every spirit who does not confess Jesus^[b] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist;^(D) you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now.