He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
Matthew 7:15 - Y'all Version Bible “Y’all beware of false prophets, who come to y’all in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves. [Ezek. 22:27.] American Standard Version (1901) Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Common English Bible “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you dressed like sheep, but inside they are vicious wolves. Catholic Public Domain Version Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. |
He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.
YHWH Almighty, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to y’all in my name: “Look, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before y’all’s eyes.
this is what YHWH says, “Look, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will not have a anyone dwelling among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do for my people,” says YHWH, “because he has spoken rebellion against YHWH.”’”
to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,’” says Lord YHWH.’”
Because you have grieved the heart of the righteous with lies, those whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on YHWH, and say, “Isn’t YHWH among us? No disaster will come on us.”
It will happen in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they won’t wear a hairy mantle to deceive,
But y’all beware of humans, for they will deliver y’all up to councils and flog y’all in their synagogues.
How is it that y’all don’t understand that I wasn’t talking to y’all about bread? But y’all beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Jesus told them, “Y’all watch out and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Many false prophets will appear, and they will lead many people astray.
How narrow is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life! There are few who find it.
Then he said to them, “Y’all must beware and be on guard against all kinds of greed, for a person’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of possessions.”
Woe to y’all when humans speak well of y’all, for their ancestors treated the false prophets the same way.
The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, but leaves the sheep and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
Therefore, y’all must watch out that what is spoken in the prophets does not happen:
When they had traversed the entire island and come to Paphos, they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who snuck in to spy on our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus so that they might bring us into bondage.
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.
Let no one deceive y’all with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Y’all must beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
Y’all see to it that no one takes y’all captive through philosophy and vain deceit, according to human tradition and the elemental spirits of the world rather than after Christ.
But evil humans and charlatans will advance from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
For the time will come when people won’t put up with sound doctrine, but instead they will accumulate teachers who tickle their ears with what they desire.
Therefore, beloved, since y’all know these things beforehand, be on guard so that y’all won’t be led astray by the error of the wicked, and fall from your* firm condition.
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.
For certain humans crept in secretly, those whose condemnation was written about long ago. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the dragon’s mouth, out of the beast’s mouth, and out of the false prophet’s mouth.
I saw the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled with great marvel.
The beast was seized, and with it the false prophet who made the signs in its presence and deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. And they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.