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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

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And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world.

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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

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We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.