Matthew 7:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ”

Matthew 7:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

False prophets - The word prophet originally means one who foretells future events. As prophets, however, were commonly regarded as public instructors on the subject of religion, the word came to...
Matthew 7:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (6) False teachers must be taken heed of: and they are known by false doctrine and evil li...
Matthew 7:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Epilogue. Warnings and exhortations close the new Law, like the old ( Exodus 23:20 ff.). Matthew 7:13 f. The Two Gates and the Two Ways ( Luke 13:24 ). The picture is based on Jeremiah 21:8...
Matthew 7:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Beware . Take heed, as in Matthew 6:1 . of . from, or away from. Greek. apo : i.e. Beware [and keep] away from.
Matthew 7:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 . But beware of false prophets These words were intended to teach, that the Church would be exposed to various impositions, and that consequently many would be in danger of fall...
Matthew 7:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1332 MEN KNOWN BY THEIR FRUITS Matthew 7:15-20 . Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fr...
Matthew 7:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Beware of false prophets - By false prophets we are to understand teachers of erroneous doctrin...
Matthew 7:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Beware of false prophets— The connection here is remarkable, says Dr. Heylin. One characteristic of false prophets, that is, false preachers, is, that they widen the narrow way. It is their pr...
Matthew 7:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Beware, [ Prosechete ( G4337 ) de ( G1161 ),`But beware'] of false prophets...
Matthew 7:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sermon on the Mount (concluded) The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance of an appendix of misc...
Matthew 7:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Beware of false prophets. — The sequence again is below the surface. How was the narrow way to be found? Who would act as guide? Many would offer their help who would simply lead men to the destruc...
Matthew 7:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 7:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Seeking Life; Testing Leaders Matthew 7:13-23 The world is full of shams. Counterfeit coins circulate; paste jewels are worn. Let us take heed against a counterfeit religion. It betrays itself...
Matthew 7:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's jud...
Matthew 7:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nothing can be more interesting than what the Lord JESUS hath here said. And no form of words can be more decisive to mark the godly man from the hypocrite. I only detain the Reader to observe, how v...
Matthew 7:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

BEWARE! ‘Beware of false prophets.… Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.’ Matthew 7:...
Matthew 7:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Beware of false prophets ,.... Or false teachers; for not such who pretended to foretell things to come, but such who set up themselves to be teachers of others, are here meant; see 2 Peter 2:1 . I...
Matthew 7:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ver. 15. Beware of false prophets, which come to you, &c. ] This is another dangerous r...
Matthew 7:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Beware of false prophets Who in their preaching describe a broad way to heaven: it is their prophesying , their teaching the broad way, rather than walking in it themselves, that is here chi...
Matthew 7:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says ( 1 Corinthian...
Matthew 7:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves....
Matthew 7:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The term prophets in holy writ is of larger extent than to signify only such as foretold things to come; others also who taught the people, pretending authority from God so to do, were called proph...
Matthew 7:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exhortation to Choose the Right Way and Produce Good Fruit by Full Obedience to His Words So As To Enter Into Life and Avoid Destruction (7:13-27). We now move on to the application part of the Se...
Matthew 7:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 7:13 . Destruction. —The word implies, not annihilation, but waste ( Matthew 26:8 ; Mark 14:4 ), perdition, i.e . the loss of all that makes existence precious. I questi...
Matthew 7:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:15-20 I. Christ warns us here to beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing. There is allusion here, no doubt, to the symbolical garments of the prophets, with which...
Matthew 7:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
Matthew 7:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:1 . Judge not, that ye be not judged. This refers to private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent,...
Matthew 7:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Beware of false prophets. The false and the true I. The tests by which the false and the true may be known. II. The ultimate destiny of the false and the true. 1. In respect to the paths...
Matthew 7:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 7:1-40 (2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards ( Matthew 6:19-40 ), so does censoriousness manwards ( Matthew 7:1-40 ), our Lord thus tacitly...
Matthew 7:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against false prophets: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing', but inwardly they are ravening wolves. This shows one of the ways in which the disciples of Christ...
Matthew 7:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:1 ; 1 Timothy 4:1-3 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; 2 Peter 2:1-3 ; 2 Peter 2:18 ; 2 Peter 2:19 ; 2 Peter 3:17 ; 2 Timothy 3:13 ; 2 Timothy 3:5-9 ; 2 Timothy 4:3 ; Acts 13:40 ; Acts 2...
Matthew 7:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 7:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that we should not judge one another. There is probably no...
Matthew 7:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Beware of false prophets — Who in their preaching describe a broad way to heaven: it is their prophesying, their teaching the broad way, rather than their walking in it themselves, that is here chi...

Matthew 7:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 7:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 7:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 7:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 7:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 7:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 7:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 7:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 7:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 7:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 7:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes