Deuteronomy 13:3

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Summary

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Hearken

Proveth

Ye love the lord your god

Deuteronomy 6:5

2 Corinthians 8:8

General references

Bible References

Hearken

To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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, whether these things were so.

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Proveth

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out , that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.

Ye love the lord your god

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

General references

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Jehovah hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe it not.

And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ; or, Lo, there; believe it not: