Deuteronomy 13:3

Israel must not heed such a prophet, for the LORD is testing whether they love him wholeheartedly. Temptations can be occasions God uses to prove genuine love.

Cross-references · 16

• Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• Ps 66:10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• 2 Th 2:11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
• Matt 24:24For 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.
• Rev 13:14He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• Ps 81:7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

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