1 John 4:2 Cross References - WPNT

² By this the Spirit of God is known: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is of God,

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹³ However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also communicate to you the things that are coming. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because He will take of what is mine and communicate it to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father has is mine; that’s why I said that He takes from what is mine and will communicate it to you.

³ Therefore I inform you that no one speaking by God’s Spirit calls Jesus accursed, and no one can declare Jesus to be Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁶ Yes, the mystery of our religion is confessedly great: God was manifested in flesh, was vindicated in spirit, was revealed to angels, was proclaimed among nations, was believed in the world, was received up in glory!

²³ Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father either.

³ and every spirit that doesn’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as having come in flesh is not of God; indeed, this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming—actually, it is already in the world right now.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; also, whoever loves the Begetter should love the one begotten by Him as well.