Deuteronomy 18:22

New English Translation

whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, all you people.”

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Isaiah 41:22

“Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events!

Jonah 3:4

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! – because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

Deuteronomy 18:20

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

Deuteronomy 18:21

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –

1 Samuel 3:19

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.