Deuteronomy 13:3

New King James Version

you shall 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, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Psalm 119:2

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!

Psalm 66:10

For You, O God, have tested 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

And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may 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 rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 17:11

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

1 Corinthians 11:19

For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.

2 Corinthians 8:8

I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

Ephesians 4:14

that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

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 test you, to do you good in the end—

Deuteronomy 8:2

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

2 Thessalonians 2:11

And for this reason God will send them 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 have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of 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

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

Judges 2:22

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

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day from sharing in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’