Deuteronomy 13:1

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If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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  • Jer 23:25-28 : 25 My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, 26 Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts? 27 Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal. 28 If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.
  • Jer 27:9 : 9 And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
  • Zech 13:4 : 4 And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:
  • Matt 7:15 : 15 Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
  • Matt 24:11 : 11 And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.
  • Luke 6:26 : 26 Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
  • 2 Thess 2:9 : 9 Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • Jer 29:24 : 24 About Shemaiah the Nehelamite.
  • Ezek 13:2-3 : 2 Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord; 3 This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!
  • Ezek 13:23 : 23 For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or make false use of secret arts: and I will make my people free from your power; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.
  • Isa 9:15 : 15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.
  • Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
  • Jer 23:11 : 11 For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

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  • Deut 13:2-3
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    2 And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;

    3 Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

  • Num 12:6
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    6 And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

  • Deut 13:5-7
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    5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

    6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

    7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Deut 18:15
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    15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;

  • Deut 18:20-22
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    20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.

    21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?

    22 When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.

  • Deut 13:12-14
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    72%

    12 And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

    13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

    14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

  • Mark 13:21-22
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    21 And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it:

    22 Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.

  • Ezek 13:1-3
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;

    3 This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!

  • Jer 28:9
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    9 The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.

  • Jer 29:8-9
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    8 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;

    9 For they are saying to you what is false in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord.

  • Mic 2:11
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    11 If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

  • Matt 24:24
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    24 For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

  • Ezek 33:33
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    33 And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.

  • Deut 18:18
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    18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.

  • Jer 23:32
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    32 See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

  • Jer 23:28
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    28 If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

  • Jer 23:25
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    25 My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,

  • Ezek 14:9
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    9 And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40 So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

  • Exod 4:8
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    8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.

  • Acts 3:22-23
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    22 For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.

    23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

  • Num 13:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Jer 23:16
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    16 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

  • Deut 17:2
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    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Job 33:15
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    15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Jer 14:14
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    14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

  • 1 Cor 14:29
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    29 And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

  • Deut 34:11
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    11 In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

  • 1 Kgs 13:11
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    11 Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.

  • Acts 7:37
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    37 This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

  • Deut 19:16
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    16 If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,

  • Deut 11:16
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    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

  • Deut 4:34
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    34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

  • Gen 37:6
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    6 And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

  • Deut 30:17
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    17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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    19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

  • Deut 29:3
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    3 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders: