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1 John 4:1-3 Exploring NCV


Warning Against False Teachers

1 John 4:1-3 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. 

This is how you can know God’s Spirit: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human is from God. 

And every spirit who refuses to say this about Jesus is not from God. It is the spirit of the enemy of Christ, which you have heard is coming, and now he is already in the world.

Meetings Should Help the Church

1 Corinthians 14:26-33 So, brothers and sisters, what should you do? When you meet together, one person has a song, and another has a teaching. Another has a new truth from God. Another speaks in a different language, and another person interprets that language. The purpose of all these things should be to help the church grow strong. 

When you meet together, if anyone speaks in a different language, it should be only two, or not more than three, who speak. They should speak one after the other, and someone should interpret. 

But if there is no interpreter, then those who speak in a different language should be quiet in the church meeting. They should speak only to themselves and to God.

Only two or three prophets should speak, and the others should judge what they say. 


If a message from God comes to another person who is sitting, the first speaker should stop. 


You can all prophesy one after the other. In this way all the people can be taught and encouraged. 


The spirits of prophets are under the control of the prophets themselves. 


God is not a God of confusion but a God of peace. As is true in all the churches of God’s people, 


Gifts from the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:1-3 Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts. 

You know the way you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that could not speak. 

So I want you to understand that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit.