Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’ ” But he was deceiving him.
1 Timothy 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared (cauterized), American Standard Version (1901) through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; Common English Bible They will be controlled by the pretense of lying, and their own consciences will be seared. Catholic Public Domain Version speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their consciences seared, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared, |
Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’ ” But he was deceiving him.
‘How?’ the Lord asked him. He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.’
elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail,
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a more shocking thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
How long? Will the hearts of the prophets ever turn back—those who prophesy lies and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart?
See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or command them, so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.
Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;
They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!
These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.