'Prophecy' in the Bible

"With them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says: "You will listen and listen but never understand. You will look and look but never comprehend,

We have different gifts based on the grace that was given to us. So if your gift is prophecy, use your gift in proportion to your faith.

to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.

Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in foreign languages, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching?

Foreign languages, then, are meant to be a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers, but for believers.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy when the elders laid their hands on you.

First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

How blessed is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and obey what is written in it, for the time is near!

I bowed down at his feet to worship him, but he told me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who rely on what Jesus is saying. Worship God, because what Jesus is saying is the spirit of prophecy!"

"See! I am coming soon! How blessed is the person who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book!"

Then he told me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy in this book, because the time is near.

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy in this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will strike him with the plagues that are written in this book.

If anyone takes away any words from the book of this prophecy, God will take away his portion of the tree of life and the holy city that are described in this book.