Isaiah 46:99 Remember the former things of old: {1} for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; {1) Or that} 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Kings 22:23 Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken evil concerning thee.

2 Chronicles 18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Jeremiah 2:8 The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the {1} rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. {1) Heb shepherds}

Jeremiah 14:14 Then Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.

Jeremiah 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 23:21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.

Jeremiah 23:25 I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Jeremiah 23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Jeremiah 23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor. Jeremiah 23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that {1} use their tongues, and say, He saith. {1) Heb take}

Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, {1} and have seen nothing! {1) Or and things which they have not seen}

Ezekiel 13:9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the {1} council of my people, neither shall they be written in the {2} writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. {1) Or secret 2) Or register}

Hosea 11:2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

Acts 7:42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, {1} Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? {1) Am 5:25 ff}

2 Peter 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in {1} destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. {1) Or sects of perdition}

1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Deuteronomy 18:22 when a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.


Scriptures For Catholics

Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of {1} victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. {1) Heb bread}

Jeremiah 44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

Jeremiah 44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to {1} worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands? {1) Or portray}

Jeremiah 44:25 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure the {1} sound {2} doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; {1) Gr healthful 2) Or teaching}

Revelation 2:20 But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest {1} the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my {2} servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. {1) Many authorities, some ancient, read thy wife 2) Gr bondservants}

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

Matthew 6:7 And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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