Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Measuring

Be as concerned with measuring yourself as with measuring the prophets

Of True	Of False
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be filled with light… Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not of darkness. Luke 11꞉34-35	Hear ye indeed, but understand not; see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Isaiah 6꞉9-10
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall also be judged:… first cast the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly. Matthew 7꞉2 Matthew 7꞉5 (see Matthew 7꞉1-27)	And why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam in thine own eye? Matthew 7꞉3
If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. Matthew 12꞉7 (also see the similar Matthew 9꞉13. Both passages allude to Hosea 6꞉7 and Micah 6꞉7-8)	All that watch for iniquity are cut off: that make a man an offender for a word... Isaiah 29꞉20-21 for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Corinthians 3꞉6
For if these things [diligence, faith, virtue knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity] be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1꞉8	He that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off. 2 Peter 1꞉9
Thou shalt not wrest judgment;	Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Matthew 23꞉24 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 11꞉1 [in Paul’s epistles] are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other scriptures unto their own destruction. 2 Peter 3꞉16 (No prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation…holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 1꞉20-21)
thou shalt not respect persons,	Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? John 7꞉48 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 2 Corinthians 10꞉12
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. Deuteronomy 16꞉19	Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil…which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Isaiah 5꞉2-23 Then answered the LORD, …wilt thou also disannul my judgment, wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Job 40꞉8
Bring therefore fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham for our Father… Matthew 3꞉8-9	They sit before thee as my people, and they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after much covetousness. Ezekiel 33꞉31