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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
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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.
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [does away with Jesus] (Gk [dissolves Jesus])
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