1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 In this know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ, is come in flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard that it should come, and that now it is already in the world. 4 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. 5 They are of the world; therefore, they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.