Bible Verses About Modern Prophets
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for modern prophets, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 477 votes, led by Deuteronomy 18:20-22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Modern Prophets
Deuteronomy 18:20-2245 votes
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Matthew 7:1545 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Acts 2:1745 votes
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
1 Corinthians 14:1-4032 votes
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Jeremiah 23:3230 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1327 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Matthew 23:3426 votes
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Ephesians 4:11-1423 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Mark 6:422 votes
But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Amos 3:721 votes
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Ephesians 4:1120 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
John 15:2019 votes
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Deuteronomy 18:2215 votes
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.
2 Peter 1:2115 votes
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:2013 votes
Despise not prophesyings.
Matthew 10:112 votes
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
James 1:1712 votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Revelation 19:1012 votes
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Psalms 1:1-611 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Matthew 7:15-2011 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Acts 13:111 votes
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
1 Corinthians 14:510 votes
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
What does the Bible say about modern prophets?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 18:20-22 on the subject of modern prophets. Across 477 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 7:15, Acts 2:17, 1 Corinthians 14:1-40. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.