1 John 4:1-3

New Century Version

Warning Against False Teachers

4 My dear friends, many false prophets have gone out into the world. So do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. ² This is how you can know God’s Spirit: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human is from God. ³ And every spirit who refuses to say this about Jesus is not from God. It is the spirit of the enemy of Christ, which you have heard is coming, and now he is already in the world.