Deuteronomy 18:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² If a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord but the thing does not take place or prove true, it is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; do not be frightened by it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or prove true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² when a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Common English Bible

²² Here’s the answer: The prophet who speaks in the LORD’s name and the thing doesn’t happen or come about—that’s the word the LORD hasn’t spoken. That prophet spoke arrogantly. Don’t be afraid of him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² you shall have this sign. If whatever that prophet predicts in the name of the Lord does not happen, then the Lord has not spoken it. Instead, the prophet has formed it through the swelling of his own mind. And for this reason, you shall not fear him.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath forged it by the pride of his mind. And therefore thou shalt not fear him.

Deuteronomy 18:22 Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, you peoples, all of you!”

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.”

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Isaiah 41:22

Let them bring them and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they were, so that we may consider them and that we may know their outcome or declare to us the things to come.

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

Deuteronomy 18:20

But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

Deuteronomy 18:21

You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a word that the Lord has not spoken?’

1 Samuel 3:19

As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.