By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 4:2 in context
1 John 4:1–5
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Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
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and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
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You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
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They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
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