Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says LORD.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

In Context

27Who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

29Is not my word like fire? says LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:16And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of LORD?

Isaiah 21:10O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Matthew 24:45Who then is the faithful and wise bondman, whom his lord appointed over his service, to give them the provision on time?

1 Corinthians 3:12And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

2 Corinthians 2:17For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33

Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →

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