'Prophets' in the Bible

And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.

All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.

For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

And they said, Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.

For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.

But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even like one of the prophets.

And they made answer, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, One of the prophets.

Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.

(As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.

And they, answering, said, John the Baptist; but others say Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has come back.

For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.

But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.

And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.

And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.

And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.

And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.

Philip came across Nathanael and said to him, We have made a discovery! It is he of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets were writing, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.

But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.

Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.

Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,

And Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, gave teaching to the brothers and made them strong in the faith.

And when Paul had put his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they had the power of talking in tongues, and acting like prophets.

And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.

But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:

And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;

King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,

But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;

And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.

For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;

So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;

Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

Do not make little of the words of the prophets;

This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,

Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.

One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.

In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.

For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;

And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.

For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the sound of his horn is about to come, then will the secret of God be complete, of which he gave the good news to his servants the prophets.

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.