Deuteronomy 13:1

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Deuteronomy 13:1

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

A prophet

A dreamer

Jeremiah 23:25

Jeremiah 27:9

General references

Bible References

A prophet

Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;

And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.

Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

A dreamer

My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,

And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:

General references

And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.

Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;

And then if any man says to you, See, here is Christ; or, See, there; have no faith in it: