1 John 4:1

Tree of Life Version

Loved ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)

Proverbs 14:15

The naïve believes every word, but the shrewd discerns his steps.

Jeremiah 14:14

Then Adonai said to me: “The prophets prophesy lies in My Name! I did not send them, nor commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, divination, futility, a delusion of their heart.”

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Do not listen to the words of prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into illusion, speaking a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of Adonai.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”

Mark 13:21

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

Luke 12:57

Why can’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Luke 21:8

And He said, “Watch out that you are not led astray! For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He’ and ‘The time is near!’ Do not follow them.

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, because they received the message with goodwill, searching the Scriptures each day to see whether these things were true.

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

1 Corinthians 12:10

to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:29

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others evaluate.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

do not despise prophetic messages,

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test all things, hold fast to what is good,

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to get shaken out of your mind or disturbed—either by a spirit or a word or a letter as if through us—as though the Day of the Lord has come.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Ruach clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, following deceitful spirits and teachings of demons

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Peter 2:1

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

1 John 2:18

Children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come—by this we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 2:7

Loved ones, I am not writing a new commandment for you, but an old commandment—one you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.

2 John 1:7

For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah coming in human flesh. This one is a deceiver and the anti-messiah.

3 John 1:11

Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

Revelation 2:2

I know all about your deeds and your toil and your patient endurance, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. You have tested those who call themselves emissaries and are not, and have found them to be liars.