Job 26:4

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To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 22:23-24 : 23 So now, look, the LORD has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours, but the LORD has decreed disaster for you.” 24 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said,“Which way did the LORD’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”
  • Job 20:3 : 3 When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
  • Job 32:18 : 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • 1 Cor 12:3 : 3 So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says,“Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say,“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 John 4:1-3 : 1 Testing the Spirits Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if 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 as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
  • Rev 16:13-14 : 13 Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are the spirits of the demons performing signs who go out to the kings of the earth to bring them together for the battle that will take place on the great day of God, the All-Powerful.

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