Deuteronomy 13:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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BSBPD

“you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 13:3 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  2. Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  3. Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
  4. 1 Samuel 26:19Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
  5. 1 Kings 13:19but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
  6. Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
  7. Psalms 81:7You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
  8. Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  9. Matthew 24:24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
  10. Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
  11. 1 Corinthians 11:19And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.
  12. 2 Corinthians 8:8I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.
  13. Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
  14. 2 Thessalonians 2:11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
  15. 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
  16. 1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  17. 1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
  18. Revelation 13:14Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

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