Bible Verses About Prophecy

Do not treat prophecies with contempt,

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,

trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

But you, beloved, remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ

when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

“Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”

I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.