Bible Cross References
For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 13:23
So now your false visions and misleading predictions are over. I am rescuing my people from your power, so that you will know that I am the LORD."
1 Kings 22:11-13
11
One of them, Zedekiah son of Chenaanah, made iron horns and said to Ahab, "This is what the LORD says: 'With these you will fight the Syrians and totally defeat them.' "
12
All the other prophets said the same thing. "March against Ramoth and you will win," they said. "The LORD will give you victory."
13
Meanwhile, the official who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, "All the other prophets have prophesied success for the king, and you had better do the same."
1 Kings 22:17-13
Proverbs 26:28
You have to hate someone to want to hurt him with lies. Insincere talk brings nothing but ruin.
Jeremiah 14:13-16
13
Then I said, "Sovereign LORD, you know that the prophets are telling the people that there will be no war or starvation, because you have promised, they say, that there will be only peace in our land."
14
But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.
15
I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.
16
The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them---including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness."
Jeremiah 23:14-29
14
But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
15
"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."
16
The LORD Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, "Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said.
17
To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them."
18
I said, "None of these prophets has ever known the LORD's secret thoughts. None of them has ever heard or understood his message, or ever listened or paid attention to what he said.
19
His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,
20
and it will not end until he has done everything he intends to do. In days to come his people will understand this clearly."
21
The LORD said, "I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.
22
If they had known my secret thoughts, then they could have proclaimed my message to my people and could have made them give up the evil lives they live and the wicked things they do.
23
"I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only.
24
No one can hide where I cannot see them. Do you not know that I am everywhere in heaven and on earth?
25
I know what those prophets have said who speak lies in my name and claim that I have given them my messages in their dreams.
26
How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?
27
They think that the dreams they tell will make my people forget me, just as their ancestors forgot me and turned to Baal.
28
The prophet who has had a dream should say it is only a dream, but the prophet who has heard my message should proclaim that message faithfully. What good is straw compared with wheat?
29
My message is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces.
Lamentations 2:14
Your prophets had nothing to tell you but lies; Their preaching deceived you by never exposing your sin. They made you think you did not need to repent.
Zechariah 13:2-4
2
At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.
3
Then if anyone still insists on prophesying, his own father and mother will tell him that he must be put to death, because he claimed to speak the LORD's word, but spoke lies instead. When he prophesies, his own father and mother will stab him to death.
4
When that time comes, no prophet will be proud of his visions or act like a prophet or wear a prophet's coarse garment in order to deceive people.
Romans 16:18
For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed---God is our witness!
2 Peter 2:2
Even so, many will follow their immoral ways; and because of what they do, others will speak evil of the Way of truth.
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!