Deuteronomy 18:21

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You may say to yourselves, 'How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?'

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  • 1 John 4:1-3 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars.
  • 1 Thess 5:24 : 24 The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:22
    87%

    22If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be afraid of him.

  • Deut 18:17-20
    4 verses
    83%

    17The LORD said to me, 'What they say is good.'

    18I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

    19If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call them to account.

    20But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.

  • Jer 23:37
    77%

    37This is what you are to say to the prophet: 'What has the LORD answered you?' and 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Jer 23:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    16This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

    17They keep saying to those who despise the LORD, ‘The LORD says you will have peace.’ And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’

    18For who has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed it?

  • Deut 13:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1You must carefully follow everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or take away from it.

    2If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

    3and the sign or wonder he spoke to you about comes true, saying, 'Let us follow other gods, whom you have not known, and let us worship them,'

  • Ezek 13:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is the declaration of the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and they hope to fulfill their words.

    7Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you say, ‘Thus says the LORD,’ but I have not spoken?

  • Jer 14:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14The LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in My name. I did not send them, command them, or speak to them. They are seeing false visions, giving worthless divinations and deceitful messages from their own hearts.

    15Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who declare, 'No sword or famine will touch this land': By sword and famine, those prophets will meet their end.

  • Lam 3:37
    73%

    37Who can speak and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has decreed it?

  • Jer 11:21
    73%

    21Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life and say, ‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hands.’

  • Ezek 13:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD.

    3This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    72%

    18As for the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, you shall say to him: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words you have heard,

  • Jer 28:9
    72%

    9But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the LORD only if his word comes to pass.

  • Deut 13:12
    72%

    12All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do such wickedness among you.

  • Jer 23:35
    72%

    35This is what each of you is to say to his neighbor and to his brother: 'What has the LORD answered?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Ezek 12:21
    72%

    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Jer 28:15
    72%

    15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, 'Listen now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you have led this people to trust in falsehood.'

  • Jer 5:13
    72%

    13The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them; therefore, let what they say be done to them.

  • Jer 23:21
    72%

    21I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

  • Isa 8:20
    72%

    20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

  • 2 Kgs 21:10
    71%

    10The LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying:

  • Jer 42:21
    71%

    21I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God or anything He has sent me to tell you.

  • Num 12:6
    71%

    6He said, 'Listen to My words: When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal Myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.

  • Ezek 21:1
    71%

    1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Mic 2:6
    71%

    6'Do not preach,' they preach. 'Do not preach about such things; disgrace will not overtake us.'

  • Ezek 14:9
    71%

    9And if the prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is I, the LORD, who have deceived that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

  • Jer 27:15
    71%

    15For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, yet they prophesy lies in my name, so that I might drive you out, and you will perish—you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.

  • Isa 8:11
    71%

    11For this is what the Lord said to me with a strong hand, warning me not to follow the way of this people:

  • Deut 13:5
    71%

    5You must follow the LORD your God, fear Him, keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

  • Ezek 33:33
    71%

    33When it happens—and behold, it will happen—they will know that a prophet was among them.

  • Amos 7:16
    71%

    16Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

  • Lev 18:1
    71%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Ezek 17:1
    71%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 5:20
    70%

    20Declare this to the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah, saying:

  • Jer 29:9
    70%

    9For they are prophesying falsely in my name. I have not sent them, declares the LORD.

  • Jer 26:4
    70%

    4And you shall say to them, 'The LORD says: If you do not listen to Me and follow My law which I have set before you...

  • Acts 3:23
    70%

    23And it will be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    70%

    21and he cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, 'This is what the LORD says: Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you,

  • Jer 38:21
    70%

    21But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word the LORD has shown me:

  • Jer 10:1
    70%

    1Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, O house of Israel.