[1] Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. [2] Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh of God: [3] And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh not of God: and that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already in the world. [4] of God, little children, and have overcome them: because in than he that is in the world. [5] They of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. [6] of God: he that knoweth God heareth he that not of God heareth not Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. [7] Beloved, let us love one another: for love of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. [8] He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God love.