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By this you know[a] the Spirit[b] of God: every spirit that is confessing Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit that is not confessing Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist— which, you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. You are from[c] God, little children, and you have overcome them, because greater is the One in you than the one in the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:2 Or, recognize.
  2. 1 John 4:2 Or, spirit from God, maintaining the same sense as the other four uses of ‘spirit’ in v 1-3.
  3. 1 John 4:4 That is, you belong to Him, having been fathered by Him.

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