In 1 John 4:3 of the King James Bible (KJB), we get key indicator on how to recognize the “spirit of antichrist”:
and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world – 1 John 4:3 KJB
So any spirit that “confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” is not of God but is that spirit of antichrist.
When we look at many modern bibles, we see that they DO NOT confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh and leave out this bit of important intel.
We are to test the spirits (1 John 4:1).
We know that evil spirits can and do confess/acknowledge Jesus (Mt 8:29; Mark 1:24; Luke 4:41), so that alone is not a good test of the spirits.
We can however definitely recognize the spirit of antichrist when it does not confess that “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”.
Now apply what we see is in scripture to the following so-called “bibles”:
ASV and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God …
CSB but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
CEB and every spirit that doesn’t confess Jesus is not from God…
CJB and every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God …
DLNT And every spirit that is not confessing Jesus is not from God …
DRA And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God …
EHV and every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God …
ESV and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
HCSB But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God …
ISV But every spirit who does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God …
LEB and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
MOUNCE but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
NABRE and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God …
NASB and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
NET but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
NIV but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God …
NLT But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God …
NRSV and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
NTE and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God …
TPT Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God has the spirit of antichrist …
RSV and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God …
TLV but every spirit that does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God …