John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
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Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Psalms 119:29
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 119:173
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
2 John 1:4
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
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1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
1 Kings 18:18
He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments and you have followed the Baals.
1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
1 Kings 22:27
Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
2 Chronicles 24:20
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”
2 Chronicles 24:21
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
2 Chronicles 25:16
As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
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Job 36:4
For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
Psalms 25:5
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
Psalms 78:32
For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Proverbs 8:7
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
John 8:14
Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.
John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
John 12:48
He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
John 16:13
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 10:10
For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.
Revelation 3:14
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
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Psalms 78:8
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Isaiah 28:7
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
Hosea 4:12
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Hebrews 3:10
Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
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Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.
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Jeremiah 17:17
Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.
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Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Matthew 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;
Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Matthew 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
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Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 50:2
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Matthew 22:3
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
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Luke 4:25
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
Luke 9:27
But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 1:13
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 6:65
He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
John 8:41
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
John 13:21
When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 20:21
Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:10
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
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John 5:18
For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 7:1
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John 7:22
Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
John 7:30
They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 9:22
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 10:39
They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
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John 1:7
The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
John 8:23
He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
John 8:38
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
John 8:39
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
John 8:42
Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
John 13:18
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 13:19
From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.
John 15:27
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Acts 13:48
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
3 John 1:11
Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
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John 5:16
For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:41
I don’t receive glory from men.
John 5:45
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 7:32
The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
John 8:5
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
John 8:50
But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
John 8:52
Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
John 8:59
Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hid himself and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
John 9:27
He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
John 9:28
They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
John 10:25
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
John 10:35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
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Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Luke 16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
John 3:11
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.
John 8:53
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
John 8:57
The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
John 10:31
Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 11:57
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
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John 12:10
But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
John 12:11
because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 5:24
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 6:46
Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
John 6:64
But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
John 8:19
They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
John 17:7
Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
Acts 10:34
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
1 John 4:8
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:20
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
2 John 1:9
Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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John 13:10
Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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Acts 24:21
unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’ ”
1 Timothy 4:2
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
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Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Acts 24:22
But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”
Acts 24:23
He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
Acts 24:24
After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
Acts 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
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Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
John 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!
2 Thessalonians 1:8
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
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Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
John 6:44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day.
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
John 17:6
“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
John 17:8
for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
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Galatians 3:2
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
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Luke 10:22
Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
John 6:61
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
John 8:8
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
John 8:55
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
Revelation 3:7
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
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1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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1 John 4:1
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
1 John 4:3
and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
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