1 John 4:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 2:18 : 18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
  • 1 John 2:22 : 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.
  • 2 John 1:7 : 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.
  • 2 Thess 2:3-8 : 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. 5 Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? 6 Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

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  • 1 John 4:1-2
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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.

    2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

  • 2 John 1:7-10
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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.

    8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

    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.

    10 If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,

  • 1 John 4:4-9
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    81%

    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 5:5-8
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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:

    8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

  • 1 John 2:21-23
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    21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

    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 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 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 John 2:18-19
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    18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

    19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

  • 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.

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

    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 2:28
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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.

  • 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.

  • 1 John 5:19-20
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    19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    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 John 1:3
    69%

    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 3:24
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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 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 14:17
    68%

    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 3:1
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    1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

  • 1 Cor 2:12
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    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 3:6-8
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    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

    7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

    8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

  • 1 John 5:1
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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.

  • 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 John 1:5
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    5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

  • Jude 1:19
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    19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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

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