Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.

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.

If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.