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 the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.

in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if 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 led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and 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 give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

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

And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound 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 strength.

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

General references

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

And the scribes did so with their sorceries, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign that 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 the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.

Then if any one say to you, Behold, here is the Christ, or here, believe it not.

And then if any one say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or Lo, there, believe it not.