1. Loved ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. You know the Ruach Elohim by this—every spirit that acknowledges that Messiah Yeshua has come in human flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God. This is the spirit of the anti-messiah, which you have heard is coming and now is already in the world.
4. You are from God, children, and you have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
5. They are from the world, so they speak from the world and the world listens to them.
6. We are from God; whoever knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7. Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9. The love of God was revealed among us by this—that God sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10. This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.
11. Loved ones, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.