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This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God:
every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh[a]
is from God,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:2 Jesus Christ has come in the flesh: see note on 1 Jn 1:1. John excludes the Gnostics, especially those known as Cerinthians, who taught that the Divine Christ came upon the human Christ at his Baptism and left him at the Cross—thus claiming that only the man Jesus died.