21You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord ?"
21You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord ?"
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 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death."
21 You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord ?"
22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
18:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
18:21And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?
18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?
18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah hath not spoken?
18:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
18:21And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
18:21If you say in your heart, |How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?|
18:21And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? —
18:21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?