1 John 4:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 2:18 : 18 Warning About False Teachers Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.
  • 1 John 2:22 : 22 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.
  • 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
  • 2 Thess 2:3-8 : 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God. 5 Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you. 6 And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time. 7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way, 8 and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

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    1 Testing the Spirits 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.

    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,

  • 2 John 1:7-10
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    7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8 Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

    9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

    10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,

  • 1 John 4:4-9
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    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.

    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

    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.

    7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

    8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

  • 1 John 4:15-17
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    15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

    16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

    17 By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

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    5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6 Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

    7 For there are three that testify,

    8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.

  • 1 John 2:21-23
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    21 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.

    22 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.

    23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.

  • 1 John 4:12-13
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    12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

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    10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

  • 1 John 2:18-19
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    18 Warning About False Teachers Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.

    19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

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    9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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    15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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    28 Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

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    3 So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says,“Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say,“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

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    19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

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    3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

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    24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • 2 Cor 11:4
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    4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

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    17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

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    12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

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    6 Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

    7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

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    1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

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    6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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    5 God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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    19 These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

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    24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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    16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

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