Acts 3:23

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Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

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  • Deut 18:19 : 19 I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • John 3:18-20 : 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • John 8:24 : 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
  • John 12:48 : 48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.
  • Acts 13:38-41 : 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you. 40 Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you: 41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you would never believe, even if someone tells you.’”
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. 8 With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • Heb 10:28-30 : 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.”
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Lev 23:29 : 29 Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 3:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

    22Moses said,‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

  • Deut 18:18-22
    5 verses
    76%

    18I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

    19I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.

    20“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

    21Now if you say to yourselves,‘How can we tell that a message is not from the LORD?’–

    22whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

  • Acts 3:24
    76%

    24And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

  • Deut 18:15
    73%

    15The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you– from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.

  • Deut 13:5
    73%

    5As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.

  • Lev 23:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

    30As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

  • Acts 7:37
    72%

    37This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

  • Ezek 33:33
    71%

    33When all this comes true– and it certainly will– then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

  • Zech 13:3
    71%

    3Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.

  • Acts 13:40
    71%

    40Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

  • Jer 5:13
    71%

    13The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The LORD has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”

  • Deut 13:3
    70%

    3You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the LORD your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being.

  • Ezek 14:8-10
    3 verses
    70%

    8I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    9“‘As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word– I, the LORD, have made a fool of that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

    10They will bear their punishment; the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it

  • Num 15:31
    70%

    31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

  • Jer 28:9
    70%

    9So if a prophet prophesied peace and prosperity, it was only known that the LORD truly sent him when what he prophesied came true.”

  • Jer 23:34
    68%

    34I will punish any prophet, priest, or other person who says“The LORD’s message is burdensome.” I will punish both that person and his whole family.’”

  • Deut 8:20
    68%

    20Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

  • Deut 13:9
    68%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

  • Jer 12:17
    68%

    17But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” says the LORD.

  • Deut 13:11
    68%

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Isa 13:15
    68%

    15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

  • Jer 23:16
    67%

    16The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to the people of Jerusalem:“Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the LORD has given them to say.

  • Jer 42:17
    67%

    17All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

  • Jer 11:3
    67%

    3Tell them that the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

  • 2 Chr 15:13
    67%

    13Anyone who would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female.

  • Deut 13:1
    67%

    1Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,

  • Josh 23:15
    67%

    15But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.

  • 1 Kgs 20:42
    67%

    42The prophet then said to him,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’”

  • Mal 4:5
    67%

    5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.

  • Jer 14:15
    67%

    15I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying,‘No war or famine will happen in this land.’ But I, the LORD, say this about them:‘War and starvation will kill those prophets.’

  • Luke 11:49
    67%

    49For this reason also the wisdom of God said,‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

  • Jer 15:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

    2If they ask you,‘Where should we go?’ tell them the LORD says this:“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.”

  • Jer 23:37
    67%

    37Each of you should merely ask the prophet,‘What answer did the LORD give you? Or what did the LORD say?’

  • Jer 26:5
    67%

    5You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. But you have not paid any attention to them.

  • Deut 28:63
    67%

    63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

  • Luke 16:31
    67%

    31He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

  • Jer 28:7
    67%

    7But listen to what I say to you and to all these people.

  • Exod 22:20
    67%

    20“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.

  • Jer 11:21
    67%

    21Then the LORD told me about some men from Anathoth who were threatening to kill me. They had threatened,“Stop prophesying in the name of the LORD or we will kill you!”

  • Matt 23:34
    67%

    34“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

  • Deut 17:12
    67%

    12The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.