Zephaniah 3:4

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Your prophets are arrogant, deceitful men who defile what is sacred and who openly break the law.

Cross References

Isaiah 9:15

Elders and honorable people are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Jeremiah 23:32

Pay attention to this, declares the Lord, I'm opposed to those who prophesy fictional dreams. They tell them in order to lead my people into sin with their wild lies. I didn't send them or give them any instructions, and they don't do anybody any good, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:19

I will hand them over to their enemies who are trying to kill them. This includes the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and everyone else who passed between the pieces of the calf.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets give false prophecies; the priests rule as they please. My people love it like this, but what will you do when it all falls apart?

Jeremiah 8:10

I'm going to give their wives to others, and their fields to different owners, since everyone cheats because they're greedy, poor and rich alike. Even prophets and priests—they are all dishonest liars!

Lamentations 2:14

The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they didn't point out your guilt to prevent you being taken into captivity. Instead they presented to you visions that were false and deceptive.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests pervert my law and make my holy things unclean. They don't distinguish between what is holy and what is ordinary, and they don't separate the clean from the unclean. They forget about my Sabbaths, and they lead people to treat me with no respect.

Ezekiel 22:6

Look at how all of your leaders in Israel use their power to murder.

Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, and explain to them how to distinguish between what is clean and what is unclean.

Hosea 9:7

The time of punishment has come; the day of retribution has arrived. Let Israel know! You say the prophet is a fool, the man of the Spirit is mad, because your sin and hostility is so great.

Micah 2:11

If a false prophet should come to you and lie, saying, “I'll preach to you about the virtues of wine and alcohol,” he would be the perfect prophet for your kind of people.

Micah 3:11

Your leaders judge for a bribe, and your priests teach for a price, and your prophets only prophesy for pay. Yet they all lean on the Lord saying, “Isn't the Lord here with us? Nothing bad can happen to us!”

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. So if I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? says the Lord Almighty to you priests who show contempt for me. But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for you?”

Malachi 2:7

A priest should explain the truth about God, they should go to him to be taught, for he is the Lord Almighty's messenger.

Malachi 2:8

But you have turned from my way. You have made many people to fall into sin. By your teaching you have broken the agreement with Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 7:15

Watch out for false prophets who come wearing sheep's clothing, but who on the inside are vicious wolves.

2 Corinthians 11:13

These people are false apostles, dishonest workers, who pretend to be apostles of Christ.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, don't trust every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to find out whether they're from God, for there are many false prophets out there in the world.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who performed miracles in his presence (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped the beast's image). Both of them were thrown alive into the like of fire that burns with sulfur.

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith. Abimelech used the money to hire some arrogant troublemakers as his gang.

1 Samuel 2:22

Eli was very old, however he had heard about all the things his sons were doing to the people of Israel, and how they were seducing the women who were serving at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.