Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.
Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’
The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and also prevail. Go and do so.’
Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you.”
Thus says the Lord, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go.
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their fathers walked.
Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.
They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.