4 Bible Verses about False Prophets

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Matthew 7:15-16

"Beware of the false teachers--men who come to you in sheep's fleeces, but beneath that disguise they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from brambles?

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Divination » Practised by » False prophets

Dreams » False prophets » Not to be regarded in

Dreams » False prophets » Pretended to

Dreams » False prophets » Condemned for pretending to

Flattery » Exemplified » False prophets

Foxes » Illustrative of » False prophets

Ignorance of God » Exemplified » False prophets

False prophets » The people » Warned not to listen to

False prophets » Judgments denounced against

False prophets » Prophesied » Peace, when there was no peace

False prophets » Mode of trying and detecting

1 John 4:1-3

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world. The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God, and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.

False prophets » Not sent or commissioned by God

False prophets » Often practised divination and witchcraft

Acts 13:6

When they had gone through the whole length of the island as far as Paphos, they there met with a Jewish magician and false prophet, Bar-Jesus by name,

False prophets » Pretended to be sent by God

False prophets » Described as » Immoral and profane

False prophets » Prophesied » Out of their own heart

False prophets » Often pretended to dreams, &c

False prophets » Women sometimes acted as

Revelation 2:20

Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.

False prophets » Predicted to arise » Before destruction of jerusalem

False prophets » The people » Led into error by

False prophets » The people » Encouraged and praised

Luke 6:26

"Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets!

False prophets » The people » Taught profaneness and sin by

False prophets » Made use of by God to prove israel

False prophets » Influenced by evil spirits

False prophets » Prophesied » Lies in the name of the lord

False prophets » The people » Made to forget God's name by

False prophets » The people » Deprived of God's word by

False prophets » Involved the people in their own ruin

False prophets » Described as » Light and treacherous

False prophets » Prophesied » Falsely

False prophets » The people » Oppressed and defrauded by

False prophets » Compared to wind

False prophets » Described as » Crafty

False prophets » Prophesied » In the name of false gods

False prophets » Often deceived by God as a judgment

False prophets » Compared to foxes in the desert

False prophets » Called foolish prophets

False prophets » Predicted to arise » In the latter times

False prophets » Described as » Drunken

False prophets » Described as » Covetous

Women » False prophets

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Revelation 2:20

Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.

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