Deuteronomy 13:3
do not pay attention to what they say. Yahweh our God will be testing you to find out if you love him with all your inner being.
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Deuteronomy 6:5You must love him with all your inner being and with all that you feel and with all that you do.
Deuteronomy 8:16Do not forget that in that desert he gave your ancestors manna to eat, food that they had never eaten before. He caused them to have/experience many problems/difficulties, because he wanted them to realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them, to find out whether they intended to obey him, in order that when those difficulties ended, he would do many good things for them.
1 Kings 13:19But because of what the old prophet said, the prophet from Judah returned with him to his home and ate some food and drank some water with him.
Psalms 81:7When you were greatly distressed, you called out to me, and I rescued you; I answered you out of a thundercloud. Later I tested whether you would trust me to give you water when you were in the desert at Meribah. (Think about that!)
1 Corinthians 11:19It seems that you must divide into groups that despise each other in order that it might be clear/evident which people among you God approves of!
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 13:2-6
Cautions Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 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. 4 Ye shall walk… Read the whole commentary →