1 John 4:2

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
  • John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • John 16:13-15 : 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. 15 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
  • 1 John 2:23 : 23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
  • 1 John 4:3 : 3 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.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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  • 1 John 4:3-9
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    3 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.

    4 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.

    5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

    6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

    8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

    9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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

    16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

    17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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

    13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 John 4:1
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    1 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.

  • 1 John 5:5-7
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    5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

    7 For there are three who testify:

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

  • 1 Cor 2:10-12
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    10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

    11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

    12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  • 1 Cor 12:3
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    3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 8:9
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    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • Rom 8:16
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    16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

  • 1 John 5:1-2
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    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

    2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

  • 1 John 3:24
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    24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

  • John 4:24
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    24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

  • 1 John 2:20
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    20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

  • Phil 2:11
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    11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

  • John 3:6
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    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:16
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    16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

  • 1 John 2:28-29
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    28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

    29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

  • 1 John 2:22-23
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    22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

    23 Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

  • 1 John 1:3
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    3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  • 1 John 3:19
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    19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

  • John 14:17
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    17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

  • 1 John 2:3
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    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

  • 1 Cor 1:6
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    6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

  • 1 John 3:10
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    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

  • 2 Cor 11:4
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    4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

  • John 15:26
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    26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

  • 1 Tim 3:16
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    16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.