1 John 4:1

American Standard Version 2015

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:21

prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

2 Peter 2:1

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, {\i even} they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believeth every word;\par\tab But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

1 Corinthians 14:29

And let the prophets speak {\i by} two or three, and let the others discern.

1 John 2:18

Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.

Luke 12:57

And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

Luke 21:8

And he said, {\cf6 Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am {\i he}; and, The time is at hand: go ye not after them.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Revelation 2:2

I know thy works, and {\i thy} toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

1 Corinthians 12:10

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits: to another {\i divers} kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

Mark 13:21

And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ; or, Lo, there; believe {\i it} not:

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?\par

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

1 Kings 13:18

And he said unto him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

despise not prophesyings;

2 Thessalonians 2:2

to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

1 John 2:7

Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.