By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ[a] has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:2 Or “confesses Jesus as Christ who has come in the flesh” (see also 2 John 7)