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1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1 John 4:1

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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

  • Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

  • For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

  • The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

The apostle, having said that God’s dwelling in and with us may be known by the Spirit that he hath given us , intimates that that Spirit may be discerned and distinguished from other spirits that appear in the world; and so here, I. He calls the disciples, to whom he writes, to caution and scrutiny about the spirits and spiritual professors that had now risen. 1. To caution: “ Beloved, believe no…

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