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.
4. Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.