1 Kings 13:18

New American Bible - revised edition

But he said to him, “I, too, am a prophet like you, and an angel told me by the word of the Lord: Bring him back with you to your house to eat bread and drink water.” But he was lying to him.

Cross References

Genesis 27:24

Again Isaac said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And Jacob said, “I am.”

Genesis 3:13

The Lord God then asked the woman: What is this you have done? The woman answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate it.”

1 Kings 13:19

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

1 Kings 20:35

Acting on the word of the Lord, one of the guild prophets said to his companion, “Strike me.” But he refused to strike him.

1 Kings 22:22

He answered, ‘I will go forth and become a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord replied: You shall succeed in deceiving him. Go forth and do this.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

Proverbs 12:22

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who are truthful, his delight.

Proverbs 19:5

The false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever utters lies will not escape.

Isaiah 36:10

Did I come up to destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself said to me, Go up and destroy that land!”

Isaiah 9:15

Those who lead this people lead them astray, and those who are led are swallowed up.

Jeremiah 23:14

But among Jerusalem’s prophets I saw something more shocking: Adultery, walking in deception, strengthening the power of the wicked, so that no one turns from evil; To me they are all like Sodom, its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 23:17

They say to those who despise the word of the Lord, “Peace shall be yours”; And to everyone who walks in hardness of heart, “No evil shall overtake you.”

Jeremiah 23:32

Yes, I am against the prophets who tell lying dreams—oracle of the Lord—those who lead my people astray by recounting their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them; they do this people no good at all—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:31

Send to all the exiles: Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah, the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah prophesies to you, although I did not send him, and has led you to rely on a lie,

Jeremiah 29:32

therefore thus says the Lord, I will punish Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, and his descendants. None of them shall dwell among this people to see the good I will do for this people—oracle of the Lord—because he preached rebellion against the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:12

They denied the Lord, saying, “He is nothing, No evil shall come to us, neither sword nor famine shall we see.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you discourage the righteous with lies when I did not want them to be distressed, and encourage the wicked so they do not turn from their evil ways and save their lives,

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore, for certain I am coming at you—oracle of the Lord God.

Numbers 22:35

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam: “Go with the men; but you may say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Matthew 24:24

False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect.

Matthew 7:15

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.

Galatians 1:8

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed!

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

2 Peter 2:1

There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who ransomed them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

1 John 4:1

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

Revelation 19:20

The beast was caught and with it the false prophet who had performed in its sight the signs by which he led astray those who had accepted the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped its image. The two were thrown alive into the fiery pool burning with sulfur.

Judges 13:3

An angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her: Though you are barren and have had no children, you will conceive and bear a son.