Bible Verses About Prophets

For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all things whatsoever he shall speak to you.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days.

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and with one accord ran violently upon him.

And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near and join thyself to this chariot.

And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.

To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.

And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

And he had four daughters, virgins, who did prophesy.

And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

Who, when he was come to us, took Paul's girdle: and binding his own feet and hands, he said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man whose girdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this manner in Jerusalem and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul speaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by Isaias the prophet,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

Which he had promised before, by his prophets, in the holy scriptures,

And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:

To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit:

To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.

But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;