Deuteronomy 13:3

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

² in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshiped before, and even if what they promise comes true, ³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ Follow Jehovah and respect him. Obey him and keep his commandments. Worship him and be faithful to him (stick to him) (stay close to him) (cleave, cling to him).

Love the Lord Your God

With All Your Heart

With All Your Soul

Jehovah

No

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the forty years Jehovah your God led you in the wilderness. He did this in order to humble you and test you. He wanted to know what was in your heart. Whether you would obey his commandments.

Deuteronomy 6:5

You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with your entire mind and with all your strength.

1 Corinthians 11:19

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

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the desert with manna. Your fathers had never seen this. He did this in order to humble you and test you. But he also did this so that things would go well for you in the end.

Psalm 66:10

You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

Psalm 81:7

You called in trouble and I rescued you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah..

Isaiah 8:20

They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.

Matthew 24:24

There will be false Christs and false prophets. They will show great signs and wonders so that many will be misled. This includes some of the chosen ones.

Acts 17:11

The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

2 Corinthians 8:8

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

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

So God dispatches the power of deceit (error) to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:4

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

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.