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

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

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.

Proveth

And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

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

And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

Ye love the lord your god

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

General references

And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.

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

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: