Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

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In The King James Version

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

In Context

14How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!

16You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:15The long-lived and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 14:14And the Lord said to me: “The prophets prophesy falsely in my name. I did not send them, and I did not instruct them, and I have not spoken to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and a divination, and a fraud, and a seduction from their own heart.

Jeremiah 28:15And Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet: “Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, and so you have caused this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 29:32For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will visit upon Shemaiah of Nehelam, and upon his offspring. There will not be, for him, even one man sitting in the midst of this people. And he will not see the good that I will accomplish for my people, says the Lord. For he has spoken a betrayal against the Lord.”

Ezekiel 13:22For by deception you have caused the heart of the just to grieve, whom I would not sadden. And I have strengthened the hands of the impious, so that he would not be turned back from his evil way and live.

Ezekiel 22:27Her leaders in her midst are like wolves seizing the prey: to shed blood, and to perish souls, and to continually pursue profit with avarice.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 7:13-15

The Sermon on the Mount. 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Our Lord Jesus here presses upon us that righteousness towards men which is an essential branch of true… Read the whole commentary →

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