4 Bible Verses about False Prophets

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Matthew 7:15-16

Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves. By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

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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 trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world. This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God--All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God; while all inspiration that does not acknowledge Jesus is not inspiration from God. It is the inspiration of the Anti-Christ; you have heard that it was to come, and it is now already in the world.

False prophets » Not sent or commissioned by God

False prophets » Often practised divination and witchcraft

Acts 13:6

After passing through the whole island, they reached Paphos, where they found an astrologer who pretended to be a Prophet--a Jew by birth, whose name was Barjoshua.

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--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

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 all men speak well of you; for this is what their ancestors did 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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