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1Jn_4:1-6. Resumption of the warning against the false teachers; comp. chap. 1Jn_2:18 ff. The connecting link is formed by ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος , chap. 1Jn_3:24; the object is to distinguish between the πνεῦμα which is of God and the πνεῦμα which is not of God (1Jn_4:2-3), between the πν . τῆς ἀληθείας and the πν . τῆς πλάνης : the distinguishing mark is the confession; the former confesses, the latter denies Jesus; the former is mightier than the latter; therefore the believers have overcome the ψευδοπροφήτας ; the words of the former spring ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου , and are pleasing to the κόσμος ; the words of the latter are accepted by him who is ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ .