4 Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired statement,+ but test the inspired statements to see whether they originate with God,+ for many false prophets have gone out into the world.+
2 This is how you know that the inspired statement is from God: Every inspired statement that acknowledges Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh originates with God.+ 3 But every inspired statement that does not acknowledge Jesus does not originate with God.+ Furthermore, this is the antichrist’s inspired statement that you have heard was coming,+ and now it is already in the world.+