Jeremiah 23:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

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  • Jer 23:28 : 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  • Joel 2:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts; and then each person will receive praise from God.
  • Num 12:6 : 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.'
  • Jer 8:6 : 6 I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?
  • Jer 14:14 : 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.'
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity hidden from my eyes.
  • Ps 139:2 : 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar.
  • Ps 139:4 : 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
  • Gen 37:5 : 5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers: and they hated him even more.
  • Gen 37:9 : 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed to me.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
  • Matt 1:20 : 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
  • Luke 12:3 : 3 Therefore, whatever you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light; and what you have spoken in the ear in closets will be proclaimed upon the housetops.
  • Jer 29:23 : 23 Because they have done outrageous things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

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  • Jer 23:26-28
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    82%

    26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

    27who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which everyone tells to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

    28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:30-32
    3 verses
    82%

    30Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

    31Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, 'He says.'

    32Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.

  • Jer 14:13-15
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    13Then I said, 'Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.''

    14Then 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.'

    15Therefore 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.

  • Jer 29:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

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

  • Jer 27:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

    15For 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.

    16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

  • Ezek 13:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

    6They 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.

    7Have 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?

    8Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, behold, I am against you, says the Lord GOD.

    9My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of my people, nor shall they be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 23:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16Thus 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.

    17They 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.'

  • Num 12:6
    74%

    6And 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 13:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

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

    2Son 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.'

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

  • Jer 23:13
    72%

    13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Zech 10:2
    72%

    2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie and told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they went their way as a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

  • Jer 23:21
    72%

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

  • Hos 12:10
    72%

    10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used parables, by the ministry of the prophets.

  • Jer 23:24
    71%

    24Can anyone hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.

  • Jer 27:10
    71%

    10For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

  • Ezek 22:28
    71%

    28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.

  • Jer 28:15
    71%

    15Then 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.

  • Deut 13:3
    71%

    3You 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.

  • Jer 29:21
    70%

    21Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

  • Isa 30:10
    70%

    10Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

  • Deut 18:20-22
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    70%

    20But 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.

    21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

    22When 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.

  • Mic 3:5
    70%

    5Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • Jer 5:31
    70%

    31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

  • Ezek 13:16
    70%

    16This is concerning the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, says the Lord GOD.

  • Job 33:15
    70%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Gen 37:6
    69%

    6And he said to them, Listen, I pray you, to this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Jer 23:37
    69%

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

  • Jer 29:23
    69%

    23Because they have done outrageous things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:13
    69%

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

  • Deut 13:1
    69%

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

  • Mic 2:11
    69%

    11If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

  • Jer 26:5
    69%

    5To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Jer 23:11
    68%

    11For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.