1 John 4:1 - Wesley's New Testament 1755

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.

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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.

1 John 4:1 Tagairtí Cros

Mark 13:21

Then if any man say to you, Lo, here is Christ, or lo, he is there, believe it not.

Luke 12:57

Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

Luke 21:8

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ: And the time is near.

Acts 17:11

These were more ingenuous than those of Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, and daily searching the scriptures, whether those things were so?

Acts 20:29

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

1 Corinthians 12:10

to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:29

Let two or three of the prophets speak, and let the rest judge. But if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by,

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Despise not prophesyings.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

and our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind or terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

1 Timothy 4:1

But the spirit saith expresly, that in the later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Peter 2:1

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

1 John 2:18

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist cometh, so even now there are many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but the old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

2 John 1:7

For many seducers are entered into the world, who confess not Jesus Christ that came in the flesh.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that is a doer of good is of God, but he that is a doer of evil, hath not seen God.

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast patience,