1 John 4:1

The Scriptures 1998

Beloved ones, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of Elohim, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

And he said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke to me by the word of יהוה, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, and let him eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believes every word, But the clever one watches his step.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then יהוה  said to me, “The prophets prophesy falsehood in My Name. I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own heart.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, they lead you astray. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of יהוה.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?

Mark 13:21

“And if anyone then says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ do not believe it.

Luke 12:57

“And why, also, do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

Luke 21:8

And He said, “See that you are not led astray, for many shall come in My Name, saying, ‘I am,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Then do not go after them.

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these words were so.

Acts 20:29

“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Corinthians 12:10

and to another operations of powers, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, and to another kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:29

And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Do not despise prophecies,

1 Thessalonians 5:21

prove them all. Hold fast what is good.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to become easily unsettled in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as if the day of יהוה  has come.

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit distinctly says that in latter times some shall fall away from the belief, paying attention to misleading spirits, and teachings of demons,

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall go on to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

2 Peter 2:1

But there also came to be false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

1 John 2:18

Little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come. This is how we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:7

Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the Word which you heard from the beginning.

2 John 1:7

Because many who are leading astray went out into the world who do not confess יהושע  Messiah as coming in the flesh. This one is he who is leading astray and the anti-messiah.

3 John 1:11

Beloved ones, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The one who is doing good is of Elohim, but he who is doing evil has not seen Elohim.

Revelation 2:2

“I know your works, and your labour, and your endurance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones, and have tried those who say they are emissaries and are not, and have found them false;