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OET (OET-RV) 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
OET-LV 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,
SR-GNT Ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκετε τὸ ˚Πνεῦμα τοῦ ˚Θεοῦ: πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ ˚Ἰησοῦν ˚Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα, ἐκ τοῦ ˚Θεοῦ ἐστιν, ‡
(En toutōi ginōskete to ˚Pneuma tou ˚Theou: pan pneuma ho homologei ˚Yaʸsoun ˚Ⱪriston en sarki elaʸluthota, ek tou ˚Theou estin,)
Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT In this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is from God,
UST I will tell you how to know if someone is teaching truth that comes from the Spirit of God or if he is not. Those who affirm that Jesus the Messiah came from God and became a human like us are teaching a message that is from God.
BSB By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
BLB By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh is of God,
AICNT By this {you know the Spirit of God}:[fn] every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
4:2, you know the Spirit of God: Later manuscripts read “the Spirit of God is known.” BYZ
OEB This is the way to recognise the Spirit of God: those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as come in the flesh have God’s Spirit,
WEBBE By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
WMBB By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Yeshua the Messiah has come in the flesh is of God,
NET 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,
LSV In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ having come in the flesh, it is of God,
FBV How can you recognize God's Spirit? Every spirit that accepts Jesus Christ came with a human body is from God;
TCNT By this [fn]the Spirit of God is known: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
4:2 the Spirit of God is known ¦ you know the Spirit of God ANT CT TR
T4T I will tell you how to recognize teachings that come from the Spirit of God: Those who affirm/say that Jesus Christ came from God to become a human like us are teaching a message that is from God.
LEB By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ[fn] has come in the flesh is from God,
4:2 Or “confesses Jesus as Christ who has come in the flesh” (see also2 John 7|link-href="None" )
BBE By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:
Moff No Moff 1YHN (1JHN) book available
Wymth The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God,
ASV Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
DRA By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:
YLT in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,
Drby Hereby ye know the Spirit of [fn]God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of [fn]God;
4.2 Elohim
RV Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
Wbstr By this ye know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ hath come in the flesh, is from God:
KJB-1769 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
(Hereby know ye/you_all the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: )
KJB-1611 Hereby know ye the spirit of God: euery spirit that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)
Bshps Hereby shall ye knowe the spirite of God: Euery spirite that confesseth that Iesus Christe is come in the fleshe, is of God:
(Hereby shall ye/you_all know the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Yesus/Yeshua Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:)
Gnva Hereby shall ye know the Spirit of God, Euery spirit which confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.
(Hereby shall ye/you_all know the Spirit of God, Every spirit which confesseth that Yesus/Yeshua Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. )
Cvdl Hereby shal ye knowe the sprete of God: Euery sprete which confesseth, that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:
(Hereby shall ye/you_all know the spirit of God: Every spirit which confesseth, that Yesus/Yeshua Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:)
TNT Herby shall ye knowe the sprete of God. Every sprete that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe is of God.
(Herby shall ye/you_all know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Yesus/Yeshua Christ is come in the flesh is of God. )
Wycl In this thing the spirit of God is knowun; ech spirit that knowlechith that Jhesu Crist hath come in fleisch, is of God;
(In this thing the spirit of God is known; each spirit that knowlechith that Yhesu Christ hath/has come in flesh, is of God;)
Luth Daran sollt ihr den Geist Gottes erkennen: Ein jeglicher Geist, der da bekennet, daß JEsus Christus ist in das Fleisch kommen, der ist von GOtt;
(Daran sollt you/their/her the spirit God’s erkennen: A jeglicher spirit, the/of_the there bekennet, that Yesus Christ is in the flesh coming, the/of_the is from God;)
ClVg In hoc cognoscitur Spiritus Dei: omnis spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse, ex Deo est:
(In this cognoscitur Spiritus of_God: everyone spiritus who confitetur Yesum Christum in carne venisse, from Deo it_is: )
UGNT ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκετε τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ: πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν,
(en toutōi ginōskete to Pneuma tou Theou: pan pneuma ho homologei Yaʸsoun Ⱪriston en sarki elaʸluthota, ek tou Theou estin,)
SBL-GNT ἐν τούτῳ ⸀γινώσκετε τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ· πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν,
(en toutōi ⸀ginōskete to pneuma tou theou; pan pneuma ho homologei Yaʸsoun Ⱪriston en sarki elaʸluthota ek tou theou estin,)
TC-GNT Ἐν τούτῳ [fn]γινώσκεται τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ· πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι·
(En toutōi ginōsketai to pneuma tou Theou; pan pneuma ho homologei Yaʸsoun Ⱪriston en sarki elaʸluthota ek tou Theou esti; )
4:2 γινωσκεται ¦ γινωσκετε ANT CT TR
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).
4:2 If a person claiming to be a prophet: John outlines a doctrinal test for prophets and teachers. Those who have the Spirit of God confess that Jesus Christ came in a real body. In other words, they must affirm the reality that Jesus is both fully man and fully God. Prophets and teachers who deny these basic teachings are antichrists (2:18). Certain false teachers in John’s day (the Docetists) taught that Jesus Christ only seemed to have a human body but did not really have one. They thereby denied that God became flesh; see 1:1-3; John 1:14).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκετε
by this ˱you_all˲_/are/_knowing
This is an idiomatic expression that John uses many times in this letter. Alternate translation: “This is how you can recognize”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ
every spirit that /is/_confessing
John is speaking of a prophet by association with the spirit that would inspire a prophet to speak. Alternate translation: “Every prophet who teaches”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα
Jesus Christ in /the/_flesh /having/_come
As in 2:16, John is using the term flesh to mean the physical human body, which is made of flesh. See Part 2 of the Introduction to 1 John for an explanation of why the false teachers denied that Jesus had a human body. Alternate translation: “that Jesus Christ had a real human body”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν
of ¬the God is
See how you translated this expression in 4:1. Alternate translation: “is inspired by God” or, if your language does not use passive forms, “God is inspiring,” placing that phrase before every spirit or “every prophet”