^{1 Ref} Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

^{2 Ref} Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

^{3 Ref} and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the `spirit' of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.

^{4 Ref} Ye are of God, `my' little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

^{5 Ref} They are of the world: therefore speak they `as' of the world, and the world heareth them.

^{6 Ref} We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.