Deuteronomy 13:3

Modern English Version

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:19

So he went back with him to his house and ate bread and drank water.

Psalm 119:2

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with all their heart.

Psalm 66:10

For You, O God, have tried us; You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Psalm 81:7

You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.   Selah

Exodus 20:20

Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you so that you do not sin.”

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, daily examining the Scriptures, to find out if these things were so.

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be factions among you so that those who are genuine may become evident among you.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I say this not as a command, but to prove through the authenticity of others, the sincerity also of your love.

Ephesians 4:14

so we may no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about with every wind of teaching by the trickery of men, by craftiness with deceitful scheming.

Deuteronomy 6:5

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might prove you, to do good for you in the end.

Deuteronomy 8:2

You must remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

Therefore God will send them a strong delusion, that they should believe the lie:

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us. But they went out, revealing that none of them were of us.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:4

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

Revelation 13:14

He deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs which he was granted to do in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by a sword and lived.

Judges 2:22

so that through them I may test Israel and see whether or not they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers did.”

1 Samuel 26:19

Now please let my lord king hear the words of his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it was the sons of men, cursed are they before the Lord. For they have driven me today from having a share in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’