1 John 4:2-6
4:2 By this
you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses
Jesus as the Christ
who has come in the flesh is from God,
4:3 but
every spirit that does not confess
Jesus
is not from God, and this is the spirit
of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
4:4 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.
4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.
4:6 We are from God; the person who 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 deceit.