Bible Verses about โprophecyโ
The Bible contains 36 verses about prophecy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โ'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.โ
โFor no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.โ
โBut false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.โ
โYes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.โ
โThe sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.โ
โIt will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'โ
โBut he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.โ
โBut this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:โ
โI will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.โ
โFor it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.โ
โFor if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;โ
โBut it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."โ
โFor if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.โ
โ"It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.โ
โIn covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.โ
โSurely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.โ
โMany will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.โ
โpromising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.โ
โthe Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;โ
โand didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;โ
โBut these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,โ
โforsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;โ
โbut chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;โ
โand delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wickedโ
โFor, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;โ
โreceiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;โ
โhaving eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;โ
โand turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;โ
โ(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):โ
โwhereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.โ
โbut he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.โ
โThese are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.โ
โThe sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.โ
โAnd also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.โ
โI will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.โ
โIt will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.โ
