1 John 4:1,5
1 John 4:1 The Message (MSG)
My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.
1 John 4:4-6 The Message (MSG)
My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.
1 John 4:1 King James Version (KJV)
Beloved, 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 4:5 King James Version (KJV)
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1 John 4:1 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:1 New Century Version (NCV)
My dear friends, many false prophets have gone out into the world. So do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God.
1 John 4:5 New Century Version (NCV)
And they belong to the world, so what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:1 American Standard Version (ASV)
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:5 American Standard Version (ASV)
They are of the world: therefore speak they as of the world, and the world heareth them.
1 John 4:1 New International Version (NIV)
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:5 New International Version (NIV)
They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:1 New King James Version (NKJV)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
I John 4:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.
1 John 4:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit [speaking through a self-proclaimed prophet]; instead test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets and teachers have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
They [who teach twisted doctrine] are of the world and belong to it; therefore they speak from the [viewpoint of the] world [with its immoral freedom and baseless theories—demanding compliance with their opinions and ridiculing the values of the upright], and the [gullible people of the] world listen closely and pay attention to them.
1 John 4:1 New Living Translation (NLT)
Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.
1 John 4:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:1 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Delightfully loved friends, don’t trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they say to determine if they are of God, because many false prophets have mingled into the world.
1 John 4:5 The Passion Translation (TPT)
They belong to this world and they articulate the spirit of this world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:1 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
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.