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NASB					1 John 4:1 ^ABeloved²⁷, do not believe⁴¹⁰⁰ every³⁹⁵⁶ ^Bspirit⁴¹⁵¹, but test^1381a the spirits⁴¹⁵¹ to see whether¹⁴⁸⁷ they are from God²³¹⁶, because³⁷⁵⁴ ^Cmany⁴¹⁸³ false⁵⁵⁷⁸ prophets⁵⁵⁷⁸ have gone¹⁸³¹ out into the world²⁸⁸⁹.
AMPLIFIED 2015					1 John 4:1 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.

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3 John 1:11 ¶ Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Jer 29:8 "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

Jer 14:14 Then the LORD said to me, "The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

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Greek Heb.

agapêtos; from 25; beloved:--beloved(60), very dear(1).

1381a

dokimazô; from 1384; to test, by impl. to approve:--analyze(2), approve(3), approved(1), approves(1), examine(4), examines(1), prove(1), proving(1), see fit(1), test(2), tested(3), try(1), trying to learn(1).

1487

ei; a prim. particle; if, whether (a cond. part. introducing circumstances nec. for a given proposition to be true; sometimes used with a command or as an indirect question, etc.):--although*(1), if(341), no(1), only(1), only*(11), suppose*(1), though(7), though*(5), unless(2), unless*(5), until*(1), whatever*(1), whether(19), whoever*(3).

1831

exerchomai; from 1537 and 2064; to go or come out of:--came(33), came forth(4), come(22), come forth(3), comes(1), coming(7), departed(1), departing(1), descended*(1), eluded(1), get(2), go(21), go away(2), go*(1), goes(2), going(2), gone(13), gone forth(2), got(2), leave(4), left(15), proceeded forth(1), spread(3), went(61), went ashore(2), went away(3), went forth(5), went off(1).

2316

theos; of unc. or.; God, a god:--divinely(1), God(1267), god(6), God's(27), God-fearing(1), godly(2), godly*(1), gods(8), Lord(1).

2889

kosmos; a prim. word; order, the world:--adornment(1), world(184), world's(1).

3754

hoti; conjunc. from neut. of 3748; that, because:--because(212), fact(3), how(2), saying(1), since(10), so(1), then(1), though(1), what(1).

3956

pas; a prim. word; all, every:--all(731), all the things(7), all...things(1), all kinds(1), all men(14), all people(4), all respects(3), all things(126), all*(1), always*(3), any(16), any at all(1), anyone(3), anything(3), anything*(1), continually*(6), entire(4), every(128), every form(1), every kind(9), every respect(1), every way(2), everyone(71), everyone's(1), everyone*(1), everything(45), forever*(1), full(2), great(2), no*(15), none*(1), nothing(1), nothing*(1), one(4), perfectly(1), quite(1), whatever(3), whatever*(1), whoever(7), whole(18).

4100

pisteuô; from 4102; to believe, entrust:--believe(118), believed(73), believers(3), believes(29), believing(10), do(1), entrust(1), entrusted(6), entrusting(1), has faith(1).

4151

pneuma; from 4154; wind, spirit:--breath(3), Spirit(241), spirit(101), spirits(32), spiritual(1), wind(1), winds(1).

4183

polus; a prim. word; much, many:--all(3), better(1), deep(1), earnestly(3), enough(1), even more(1), few*(1), freely(1), full(1), further(1), further*(3), great(33), greater(4), greater numbers(1), greatly(5), hard(2), harshly(1), heartily(1), high price(1), large(30), large numbers(1), large sums(1), larger(1), late*(2), lengthy(1), long(5), longer(1), loudly(1), majority(3), many(181), many more(1), many people(1), many subjects(1), many things(17), many...things(4), more(25), more numerous(1), most(8), most people's(1), much(50), often(1), plentiful(2), quite(2), several(1), some(1), something greater(2), strict(1), terrible(1), very(1), very large(1), very long(1), very much(1).

5578

pseudoprophêtês; from 5571 and 4396; a false prophet:--false prophet(4), false prophets(7).

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