you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
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