Jeremiah 29:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Send to all the exiles, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and has led you to trust in a lie,

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.

Jeremiah 23:21

I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 29:20

But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of the Lord:

Jeremiah 29:30

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 29:9

for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, says the Lord.

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.