Deuteronomy 18:17-22

English Standard Version

¹⁷ And the Lord said to me, ^(A)‘They are right in what they have spoken. ^18 (B)I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. ^(C)And I will put my words in his mouth, and ^(D)he shall speak to them all that I command him. ^19 (E)And whoever will ^(F)not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. ^20 (G)But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or^[a] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ ²¹ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— ^22 (H)when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; ^(I)the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.