Bible verse
You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
Deuteronomy 18:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 18.
17 Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
19 And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
20 But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
21 You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
KJV
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
ASV
And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?
ERV
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
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