Deuteronomy 13:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and show you omens or portents,

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

Then the other said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, ‘Bring him back with you into your house so that he may eat food and drink water.’ ” But he was deceiving him.

1 Kings 13:19

Then the man of God went back with him and ate food and drank water in his house.

Proverbs 30:6

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

Isaiah 9:15

elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail,

Jeremiah 23:11

Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:32

See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or command them, so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 27:9

You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 29:24

To Shemaiah of Nehelam you shall say:

Jeremiah 29:26

The Lord himself has made you priest instead of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be officers in the house of the Lord to control any madman who plays the prophet, to put him in the stocks and the collar.

Jeremiah 29:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to your dreams that you dream,

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 13:23

therefore you shall no longer see false visions or practice divination; I will save my people from your hand. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer for lack of a shepherd.

Zechariah 13:4

On that day the prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,

Matthew 24:11

And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 7:15

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

Mark 13:22

False messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

Luke 6:26

“Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

Deuteronomy 18:20

But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

Deuteronomy 4:1

“So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2

You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.

2 Thessalonians 2:9

The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,

2 Peter 2:1

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

1 John 4:1

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