Ezekiel 13:3 Cross References
Ezekiel 13:3
3: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Destruction is certain for the false prophets who are following their own imaginations and have seen nothing at all!
Lamentations 2:14
- Your "prophets" have said so many foolish things, false to the core. They did not try to hold you back from exile by pointing out your sins. Instead, they painted false pictures, filling you with false hope.
Hosea 9:7
- The time of Israel's punishment has come; the day of payment is almost here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. "The prophets are crazy!" the people shout. "The inspired men are mad!" So they taunt, for the nation is burdened with sin and shows only hatred for those who love God.
Jeremiah 23:28
- Let these false prophets tell their dreams, but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word. There is a difference between chaff and wheat!
- Does not my word burn like fire?" asks the LORD. "Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes rock to pieces?
- "Therefore," says the LORD, "I stand against these prophets who get their messages from each other--
- these smooth-tongued prophets who say, `This prophecy is from the LORD!'
- Their imaginary dreams are flagrant lies that lead my people into sin. I did not send or appoint them, and they have no message at all for my people," says the LORD.
Ezekiel 34:2
- "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds, the leaders of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: Destruction is certain for you shepherds who feed yourselves instead of your flocks. Shouldn't shepherds feed their sheep?
Jeremiah 23:1
- "I will send disaster upon the leaders of my people--the shepherds of my sheep--for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for," says the LORD.
Proverbs 15:14
- A wise person is hungry for truth, while the fool feeds on trash.
Zechariah 11:15
- Then the LORD said to me, "Go again and play the part of a worthless shepherd.
Luke 11:42
- "But how terrible it will be for you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest part of your income, but you completely forget about justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but you should not leave undone the more important things.
- "How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! For how you love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the respectful greetings from everyone as you walk through the markets!
- Yes, how terrible it will be for you. For you are like hidden graves in a field. People walk over them without knowing the corruption they are stepping on."
- "Teacher," said an expert in religious law, "you have insulted us, too, in what you just said."
- "Yes," said Jesus, "how terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you crush people beneath impossible religious demands, and you never lift a finger to help ease the burden.
Matthew 23:13
- "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and you won't go in yourselves.
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- Yes, how terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn him into twice the son of hell as you yourselves are.
- "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
- Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
1 Corinthians 9:16
- For preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn't do it!
2 Timothy 3:9
- But they won't get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are, just as happened with Jannes and Jambres.
Ezekiel 13:6
- Instead, they have lied and said, `My message is from the LORD,' even though the LORD never sent them. And yet they expect him to fulfill their prophecies!
- Can your visions be anything but false if you claim, `This message is from the LORD,' when I have not even spoken to you?
Ezekiel 13:18
- This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Destruction is certain for you women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, both young and old alike. You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils. Do you think you can trap others without bringing destruction on yourselves?
Luke 11:52
- "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering."
Proverbs 15:2
- The wise person makes learning a joy; fools spout only foolishness.
Luke 11:40
- Fools! Didn't God make the inside as well as the outside?
1 Timothy 6:4
- Anyone who teaches anything different is both conceited and ignorant. Such a person has an unhealthy desire to quibble over the meaning of words. This stirs up arguments ending in jealousy, fighting, slander, and evil suspicions.