Deuteronomy 13:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for יהוה  your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love יהוה  your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Common English Bible

³ you must not listen to that prophet’s or dream interpreter’s words, because the LORD your God is testing you to see if you love the LORD your God with all your mind and all your being.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you, so that it may become clear whether or not you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 13:3 Cross References

1 Kings 13:19

So he turned back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Psalm 119:2

Blessed are those who observe His witnesses, Who seek Him with all the heart!

Psalm 66:10

For You, O Elohim, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Psalm 81:7

“You called in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you in the covering of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meriḇ

Exodus 20:20

And Mosheh said to the people, “Do not fear, for Elohim has come to prove you, and in order that His fear be before you, so that you do not sin.”

Isaiah 8:20

To the Torah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no daybreak.

Matthew 24:24

“For false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these words were so.

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there have to be factions even among you, so that the approved ones might be revealed among you.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I speak not by command, but I am proving the genuineness of your love by the eagerness of others.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,

Deuteronomy 6:5

“And you shall love יהוה  your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and to try you, to do you good in the end,

Deuteronomy 8:2

“And you shall remember that יהוה  your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

And for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe the falsehood,

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have stayed with us – but in order that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us.

1 John 4:1

Beloved ones, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of Elohim, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:4

You are of Elohim, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Revelation 13:14

And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived.

Judges 2:22

in order to try Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 26:19

“And now, please, let my master the sovereign hear the words of his servant: If יהוה  has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, then they are cursed before יהוה, for they have driven me out today that I should not join myself to the inheritance of יהוה, saying, ‘Go, serve other mighty ones.’