1 John 4:1 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BELOVED, DO not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ Dear friends, don’t believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see if they are from God because many false prophets have gone into the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1 John 4:1 Tagairtí Cros

Mark 13:21

If anyone says to you at that time, ‘Behold, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Behold, there he is!’ do not believe him.

Luke 12:57

“Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

Luke 21:8

He said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Do not go after them.

Acts 17:11

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, and they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

Acts 20:29

For I know that after my departure fierce wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Corinthians 12:10

to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:29

Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should evaluate what they say.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Do not despise prophecies,

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test everything; hold fast to what is good.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to be quickly shaken from your understanding or alarmed by any spirit or message or by any letter supposedly from us alleging that the day of Christ has already come.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith and occupy themselves with deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil people and imposters will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Peter 2:1

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

1 John 2:18

Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:7

Brothers, I am not writing you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have heard from the beginning.

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers have come into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. Whoever does good is of God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

Revelation 2:2

I know yoʋr works, yoʋr labor, and yoʋr endurance. I know that yoʋ cannot tolerate those who are evil, and that yoʋ have tested those who declare themselves to be apostles but are not, and have found them to be false.