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Matthew 7:15

Watch out for false prophets who come wearing sheep's clothing, but who on the inside are vicious wolves.

Free Bible Version

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

14But the entrance is narrow, and the way is difficult that leads to life, and only a few find it.

16You can recognize them by their fruits. Do people harvest grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:15Elders and honorable people are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Jeremiah 14:14The prophets are prophesying lies in my name, replied the Lord. I didn't send them or choose them or speak to them. It's a lying vision, an empty prediction, a deluded, deceitful product of their own minds that they are prophesying to you.

Jeremiah 28:15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen to this, Hananiah! The Lord didn't send you, but you have convinced these people to believe in a lie.

Jeremiah 29:32this is what the Lord says: I'm going to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He won't have any family left among this people, and he won't experience the good things that I'm going to do for my people, declares the Lord, for he has promoted rebellion against the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:22Because you have discouraged good people with your lies, even though I didn't have anything against them, and because you have encouraged the wicked that they shouldn't give up from their evil ways to save their lives,

Ezekiel 22:27Her city officials are like wolves ripping up their prey, killing people, destroying lives so they can profit through fraud.

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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