Beloved, y’all must not believe every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to determine whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of humans, in craftiness in deceitful scheming.
I know your works, your toil, and your perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people, and have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them false.
But y’all, shouldn’t listen to your* prophets, your* diviners, your* dreamers, your* soothsayers, or your* sorcerers, who tell y’all, “Y’all do not need to serve the king of Babylon.”
Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Say this to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us!’ You should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.