predictions of the future
What does the Bible say about predictions of the future? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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20Understand this first: that every prophecy of Scripture does not result from one’s own interpretation. 21For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.
7“For behold, I am approaching quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
30And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them.
21For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
4For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.”
16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,
27And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;