Bible verses about Prophets, False
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)
- Pretended to be sent by God
Jeremiah 23:17,18,31- Not sent or commissioned by God
Jeremiah 14:14; 23:21; 29:31- Made use of by God to prove Israel
Deuteronomy 13:3- DESCRIBED AS
- Light and treacherous
Zephaniah 3:4
- Covetous
Micah 3:11
- Crafty
Matthew 7:15
- Drunken
Isaiah 28:7
- Immoral and profane
Jeremiah 23:11,14- Women sometimes acted as
Nehemiah 6:14; Revelation 2:20- Called foolish prophets
Ezekiel 13:2- Compared to foxes in the desert
Ezekiel 13:4- Compared to wind
Jeremiah 5:13- Influenced by evil spirits
I Kings 22:21,22- PROPHESIED
- Falsely
Jeremiah 5:31
- Lies in the name of the Lord
Jeremiah 14:14
- Out of their own heart
Jeremiah 23:16,26; Ezekiel 13:2
- In the name of false gods
Jeremiah 2:8
- Peace, when there was no peace
Jeremiah 6:14; 23:17; Ezekiel 13:10; Micah 3:5- Often practised divination and witchcraft
Jeremiah 14:14; Ezekiel 22:28; Acts 13:6- Often pretended to dreams
Jeremiah 23:28,32- Often deceived by God as a judgment
Ezekiel 14:9- THE PEOPLE
- Led into error
Jeremiah 23:13; Micah 3:5
- Made to forget God's name by
Jeremiah 23:27
- Deprived of God's word by
Jeremiah 23:30
- Taught profaneness and sin by
Jeremiah 23:14,15
- Oppressed and defrauded by
Ezekiel 22:25
- Warned not to listen to
Deuteronomy 13:3; Jeremiah 23:16; 27:9,15,16
- Encouraged and praised
Jeremiah 5:31; Luke 6:26- Mode of trying and detecting
Deuteronomy 13:1,2; 18:21,22; I John 4:1-3- PREDICTED TO ARISE
- Before destruction of Jerusalem
Matthew 24:11,24
- In the latter times
II Peter 2:1- Judgments denounced against
Jeremiah 8:1,2; 14:15; 28:16,17; 29:32- Involved the people in their own ruin
Isaiah 9:15,16; Jeremiah 20:6; Ezekiel 14:10