Bible Verses about โtrue prophetโ
The Bible contains 27 verses about true prophet across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBeloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.โ
โBy their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?โ
โEven so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.โ
โEvery tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.โ
โA good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.โ
โTherefore, by their fruits you will know them.โ
โFor there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.โ
โYou are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.โ
โFor no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.โ
โHe came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.โ
โand every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.โ
โBy this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,โ
โThey asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."โ
โThis is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"โ
โHe declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."โ
โThey said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"โ
โHe said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."โ
โThey asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"โ
โThe ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.โ
โWe are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.โ
โThey are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.โ
โHe said, "Hear now my words. If there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.โ
โwhen a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.โ
โI will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.โ
โBut the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die."โ
โIf you say in your heart, "How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?"โ
โYahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.โ
