1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;
3. and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.