Jeremiah 27:14

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Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying lies to you.

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  • Jer 14:14 : 14 The 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.
  • Jer 23:21 : 21 I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
  • Jer 29:8-9 : 8 This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Do not let the prophets or diviners among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that you are dreaming. 9 For they are prophesying falsely in my name. I have not sent them, declares the LORD.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their deeds.
  • Jer 27:9-9 : 9 So do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 They are prophesying lies to you, and the result will be that I will drive you far from your land, and you will perish.
  • Jer 28:15 : 15 Then 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.'
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But just as there were false prophets among the people, there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 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.
  • Ezek 13:6-9 : 6 They 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. 7 Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you say, ‘Thus says the LORD,’ but I have not spoken? 8 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people, nor be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD. 10 Because they have misled my people by saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because when a flimsy wall is built, they plaster it over with whitewash, 11 say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it. 12 When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’ 13 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: In my wrath, I will unleash a stormy wind. In my anger, there will be flooding rain, and hailstones in fury will bring about destruction. 14 I will break down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. It will collapse, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 15 So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’
  • Ezek 13:22-23 : 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies when I had not caused them grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives, 23 therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will rescue my people from your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Mic 2:11 : 11 If someone full of wind and deceit lies and says, 'I will preach to you about wine and strong drink,' that would be just the preacher for this people!
  • Matt 7:15 : 15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
  • Jer 23:25 : 25 I have heard what the prophets who prophesy falsely in My name are saying: 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'
  • 1 Kgs 22:22-23 : 22 ‘By what means?’ the LORD asked. 'I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. The LORD replied, 'You will succeed in enticing him. Go and do it.' 23 So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has decreed disaster for you.
  • Isa 28:10-13 : 10 For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there. 11 Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people. 12 To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen. 13 So the word of the LORD to them will be: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there—so that they may go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and captured.

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  • Jer 27:8-13
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    8But any nation or kingdom that will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or place its neck under his yoke—I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.

    9So do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

    10They are prophesying lies to you, and the result will be that I will drive you far from your land, and you will perish.

    11But the nation that willingly brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, I will let dwell on its land, declares the LORD, to work it and live on it.

    12I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah with the same message, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.

    13Why should you and your people die by the sword, famine, and plague, as the LORD has spoken regarding any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

  • Jer 27:15-18
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    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.

    16Then I said to the priests and all this people: This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘The articles of the LORD’s house will soon be returned from Babylon.’ They are prophesying lies to you.

    17Do not listen to them. Instead, serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a ruin?

    18If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them pray earnestly to the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem will not be taken to Babylon.

  • Jer 23:16
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    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.

  • Jer 28:14-15
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    14For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have placed an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations, to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control over the beasts of the field.'

    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.'

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    13But I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.'"

    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.

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    19Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land'?

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    8This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Do not let the prophets or diviners among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that you are dreaming.

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

  • Jer 29:19-21
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    19I will do this because they have not listened to my words—this is the LORD's declaration—that I sent to them again and again through my servants the prophets. And you also have not listened—this is the LORD's declaration.

    20So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

    21This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: 'I am about to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.'

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    32Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, declares the LORD. They tell them and lead My people astray with their lies and reckless boasting. Yet I did not send or command them to do so, and they do not benefit these people at all, declares the LORD.

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    2Neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD, which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

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    25I have heard what the prophets who prophesy falsely in My name are saying: 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!'

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    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.

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    9This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, 'The Chaldeans will surely leave us,' for they will not leave.

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    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.

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  • Jer 29:15
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