Bible verses about "prophets" | Matthew

¹ If there aryse amonge you a Prophete or a dreamer of dreames, and gyue the a sygne or a wonder, ² and that signe or wonder whyche he hath said come to passe and then say: let vs go after straunge Goddes whyche thou hast not knowne and let vs serue them: ³ herken not vnto the wordes of the prophete, or dreamer of dreames. For the Lord thy God tempteth you to wete whether ye loue the Lord your God wt all youre hertes & wyth all your soules. ⁴ For ye muste walke after the Lord your God & feare him & kepe hys commaundementes & herken vnto his voyce, & serue him & cleaue vnto him. ⁵ And the prophete or dreamer of dreames shal dye for it bicause he hath spoken to turne you away from the Lorde your God whyche brought you out of the land of Egipt & deliuered you out of the house of bondage, to thrust the out of the waye whiche the Lord thy God commaunded the to walke in: and so thou shalte put euyl away from the.

²⁶ Howe is it then brethren? When ye come together, euerye man hath his songe, hath his doctryne, hath his tounge, hath hys reuelation, hath hys interpretation. Let al thynges be done vnto edifiynge. ²⁷ If anye man speake wyth tounges, let it be two at ones, or at the moste thre at ones, and that by course: and let another interprete it. ²⁸ But yf there be no interpreter, let him kepe silence in the congregation, and let him speake to him selfe and to God. ²⁹ Let the Prophetes speake two at ones, or thre at ones, and let other iudge. ³⁰ And yf anye reuelation be made to another that sitteth by, let the fyrste holde hys peace. ³¹ For ye maye all prophecye, one by one that all maye learne, and all maye haue comforte. ³² For the spirites of the Prophetes are in the power of the Prophetes. ³³ For God is not causer of strife, but of peace, as he is in all other congregations of the sainctes.

⁷ Nowe doth the Lorde God no maner of thynge, but he telleth hys secrete before vnto hys seruauntes the Prophetes.

¹ God in tyme paste diuerselye and manye wayes, spake vnto the fathers by Prophetes, ² but in these laste dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by hys sonne, whom he hath made heyre of all thynges, by whom also he made the worlde.

¹ Ye beloued, beleue not euery spirite, but proue the spirites whether they be of God, or not, for manye false prophetes are gone out into the world.

²¹ For the scrypture came neuer by the wyl of man, but holye men of God spake as they were moued by the holy ghoste.