First Reading1 John 3:22—4:6
From the First Letter of John
22so whatever we ask,we receive from him,because we keep his commandmentsand do the things that are pleasing in his sight.23This is his commandment,that we should believe in the name of his Son,Jesus Christ, and love one another,even as he commanded.24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him.By this we know that he remains in us,by the Spirit which he gave us.
1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit,but test the spirits,whether they are of God,because many false prophets have gone out into the world.2By this you know the Spirit of God:every spirit who confessesthat Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,3and every spirit who doesn’t confessthat Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God;and this is the spirit of the Antichrist,of whom you have heard that it comes.Now it is in the world already.4You are of God, little children,and have overcome them,because greater is hewho is in you than he who is in the world.5They are of the world.Therefore they speak of the world,and the world hears them.6We are of God.He who knows God listens to us.He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us.By this we know the spirit of truth,and the spirit of error.