Deuteronomy 13:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Deut 6:5 : 5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
  • 2 Thess 2:11 : 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
  • Rev 13:14 : 14 He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
  • Ps 66:10 : 10 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
  • Ps 81:7 : 7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 13:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,

    2 and the sign or the wonder come 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;"

  • Deut 13:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

    5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

    7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • Jer 23:16
    76%

    16 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

  • Jer 29:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

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

  • Deut 18:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

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

    21 If you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?"

    22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Ezek 13:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of Yahweh:

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

  • Deut 11:16
    73%

    16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Deut 30:17
    72%

    17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Deut 11:13
    72%

    13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Jer 27:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

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

  • Num 12:6
    72%

    6 He said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

  • Deut 18:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

    15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

  • Jer 23:32
    72%

    32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 14:14
    71%

    14 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

  • Jer 23:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Deut 8:2
    70%

    2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

  • Jer 27:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 Don't listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.

    15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

  • Acts 3:23
    70%

    23 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

  • Deut 6:14
    70%

    14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

  • Deut 6:5
    70%

    5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

  • Josh 23:11
    70%

    11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 12:4
    70%

    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 13:12
    70%

    12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

  • Jer 23:28
    70%

    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 straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.

  • Deut 17:3
    69%

    3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

  • Deut 28:14
    69%

    14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

  • 1 John 4:1
    69%

    1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

  • Deut 30:10
    69%

    10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

  • Ps 81:9
    68%

    9 There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 10:12
    68%

    12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deut 30:2
    68%

    2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

  • Zech 13:3
    68%

    3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

  • Deut 6:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

    17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Ezek 13:7
    68%

    7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

  • 2 Kgs 17:13
    68%

    13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."

  • Deut 27:10
    67%

    10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."

  • Deut 4:29
    67%

    29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.