Deuteronomy 18:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

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  • 1 John 4:1-3 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits 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 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even now it is already in the world.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil; and you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
  • 1 Thess 5:24 : 24 Faithful is he who calls you, who also will do it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 18:22
    87%

    22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Deut 18:17-20
    4 verses
    83%

    17 And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

    18 I will raise up for them a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

    19 And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.

    20 But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

  • Jer 23:37
    77%

    37 Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Jer 23:16-18
    3 verses
    76%

    16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

    17 They still say to those who despise me, 'The LORD has said, You shall have peace.' And they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, 'No evil shall come upon you.'

    18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD and has perceived and heard his word? Who has marked his word and heard it?

  • Deut 13:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 If there arises among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

    2 And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;

    3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God tests you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Ezek 13:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, 'The LORD says'; but the LORD has not sent them. And they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

    7 Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, when you say, 'The LORD says it,' although I have not spoken?

  • Jer 14:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 Then the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.'

    15 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

  • Lam 3:37
    73%

    37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not commanded it?

  • Jer 11:21
    73%

    21 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:

  • Ezek 13:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

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

    2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts, 'Hear the word of the LORD.'

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

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    72%

    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, As for the words which you have heard;

  • Jer 28:9
    72%

    9 The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.

  • Deut 13:12
    72%

    12 If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

  • Jer 23:35
    72%

    35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Ezek 12:21
    72%

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

  • Jer 28:15
    72%

    15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

  • Jer 5:13
    72%

    13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

  • Jer 23:21
    72%

    21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

  • Isa 8:20
    72%

    20 To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

  • 2 Kgs 21:10
    71%

    10 And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

  • Jer 42:21
    71%

    21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor anything for which he has sent me to you.

  • Num 12:6
    71%

    6 And he said, 'Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.'

  • Ezek 21:1
    71%

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

  • Mic 2:6
    71%

    6 Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.

  • Ezek 14:9
    71%

    9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

  • Jer 27:15
    71%

    15 For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

  • Isa 8:11
    71%

    11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

  • Deut 13:5
    71%

    5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Ezek 33:33
    71%

    33 And when this comes to pass—and indeed it will come—then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.

  • Amos 7:16
    71%

    16 Now 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%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Ezek 17:1
    71%

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

  • Jer 5:20
    70%

    20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • Jer 29:9
    70%

    9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

  • Jer 26:4
    70%

    4 And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • Acts 3:23
    70%

    23 And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    70%

    21 And he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD, Because you have disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,

  • Jer 38:21
    70%

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

  • Jer 10:1
    70%

    1 Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel: