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True and false spirits

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4:1 True and false spirits

4 Dear friends, don’t trust every spirit, but test them to determine whether or not it’s from God, because many false prophets go around the world. 2 You all can find out whether or not a spirit is from God: If the spirit confesses that Yeshua the messiah has come as a person, then it’s from God 3 but if the spirit won’t confess Yeshua, then it’s not from God but rather it’s the spirit of the false messiah, whom you’ve heard is coming, and is now already in the world.

4 You new believers are in God and you have defeated the false prophets, because the one in you is more powerful than the one in the world. 5 They belong to the world hence they are speaking from the world, and the world is listening to them. 6 However we belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, but anyone who doesn’t belong to God can’t accept what we’re saying. That’s how we can distinguish the spirit of truth from deceptive spirits.

4 Beloved, not be_believing in_every spirit, but be_approving the spirits, whether it_is of the god, because many false_prophets have_come_out into the world.
2 By this you_all_are_knowing the spirit of_ the _god:
every spirit that is_confessing Yaʸsous chosen_one/messiah having_come in the_flesh, is of the god, 3 and every spirit that is_ not _confessing the Yaʸsous, is not of the god.
And this is the spirit of_the anti-messiah, which you_all_have_heard that it_is_coming, and now is already in the world.
4 You_all are of the god, little_children, and you_all_have_overcome them, because greater is the one in you_all, than the one in the world.
5 They are of the world, because_of this they_are_speaking from the world, and the world is_hearing from_them.
6 We are of the god.
The one knowing the god, is_hearing from_us, whoever is not of the god, is_ not _hearing from_us.
By this we_are_knowing the spirit of_ the _truth and the spirit of_ the _deception.

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