Matthew 7:15

Matthew chapter 7 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Context

v.14For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

v.15This passage

v.16By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Micah 3:11

    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.

  • Zephaniah 3:3

    Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

  • Jeremiah 23:13

    And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Matthew 16:11

    How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Deuteronomy 13:1

    If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder,

  • Revelation 19:20

    And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: