Jeremiah 14:14
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14 And the Lord said to me, (A)“The prophets prophesy lies in My name. (B)I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, [a]divination, a worthless thing, and the (C)deceit of their heart.
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- Jeremiah 14:14 Telling the future by signs and omens
Ezekiel 13:6-7
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6 (A)They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has (B)not sent them; yet they hope that the word may [a]be confirmed. 7 Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”
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- Ezekiel 13:6 Come true
Jeremiah 29:8-9
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8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst (A)deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy (B)falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 12:24
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24 For (A)no more shall there be any (B)false[a] vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
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- Ezekiel 12:24 Lit. vain
Lamentations 2:14
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14 Your (A)prophets have seen for you
False and deceptive visions;
They have not (B)uncovered your iniquity,
To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false (C)prophecies and delusions.
Jeremiah 29:31
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31 Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, (A)and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a (B)lie—
Isaiah 30:10-11
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10 (A)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(B)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”
Micah 3:11
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11 (A)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(B)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(C)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
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- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Jeremiah 27:9-10
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9 Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your [a]dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.” 10 For they prophesy a (A)lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
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- Jeremiah 27:9 Lit. dreams
Jeremiah 23:21-32
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21 “I(A) have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have (B)turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23 “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone (C)hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;
(D)“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
25 “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, (E)as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29 “Is not My word like a (F)fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore behold, (G)I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am (H)against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their (I)lies and by (J)their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not (K)profit this people at all,” says the Lord.
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
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9 The coming of the lawless one is (A)according to the working of Satan, with all power, (B)signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among (C)those who perish, because they did not receive (D)the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And (E)for this reason God will send them strong delusion, (F)that they should believe the lie,
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Jeremiah 23:14-16
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14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
(A)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also (B)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like (C)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (D)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
(E)They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Jeremiah 5:31
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31 The prophets prophesy (A)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (B)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?
Ezekiel 21:29
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29 While they (A)see false visions for you,
While they divine a lie to you,
To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain
(B)Whose day has come,
Whose iniquity shall end.
Jeremiah 27:14-15
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14 Therefore (A)do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy (B)a lie to you; 15 for I have (C)not sent them,” says the Lord, “yet they prophesy a lie in My name, that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
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1 Timothy 4:2
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2 (A)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience (B)seared with a hot iron,
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Zechariah 13:3
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3 It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall (A)not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who begot him (B)shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
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Zechariah 10:2
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2 For the (A)idols[a] speak delusion;
The diviners envision (B)lies,
And tell false dreams;
They (C)comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wend their way like (D)sheep;
They are [b]in trouble (E)because there is no shepherd.
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- Zechariah 10:2 Heb. teraphim
- Zechariah 10:2 afflicted
Ezekiel 13:23
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23 Therefore (A)you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination; for I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 37:19
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19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
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Jeremiah 29:21
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21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a (A)lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.
Jeremiah 28:15
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15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, but (A)you make this people trust in a (B)lie.
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Jeremiah 28:13
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13 “Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron.”
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Isaiah 9:15
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15 The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
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