{"id":239,"date":"2025-10-06T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:22:38","slug":"1-john-4-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"1 John 4: 1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4:1 Beloved, do not believe every <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">spirit<\/mark>, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">which you <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">heard<\/mark> was coming <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">and now is in the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">world<\/mark> already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">4 Little children, you are from God and have <mark style=\"background-color:#b9fbc0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">overcome<\/mark> them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">5 They are from the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">world<\/mark>; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">6 We are from God. Whoever knows God <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">listens<\/mark> to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this we know the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Spirit<\/mark> of truth and the spirit of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-john","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}