Bible Verses About Prophetic Messages

The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Despise not prophesyings.

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.

Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken?

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord;

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.

Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

Then came the word of the Lord unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,