The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.


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Matthew 7 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
1 Timothy 6 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Job 40 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Colossians 1 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Isaiah 3 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isaiah 41 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Job 41 34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Isaiah 30 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
1 Kings 22 23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
2 Chronicles 18 22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
2 Samuel 22 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
Deuteronomy 28 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Hosea 9 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Proverbs 2 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Psalms 18 43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
1 John 2 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Job 12 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Zechariah 13 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
Daniel 5 11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Malachi 2 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Ezekiel 13 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
2 Samuel 19 27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
Revelation 17 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Romans 2 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Deuteronomy 28 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
1 Corinthians 11 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Mark 6 15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.
Isaiah 31 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
Psalms 91 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Joshua 12 20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
Hebrews 1 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Daniel 2 38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Romans 13 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Psalms 144 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Hebrews 8 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Psalms 144 3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Revelation 1 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Exodus 4 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Jeremiah 5 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Hebrews 7 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
Proverbs 16 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
2 Peter 2 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Samuel 18 27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
Luke 1 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Leviticus 25 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Psalms 2 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Daniel 7 20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
Hebrews 1 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Matthew 24 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Job 26 12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.