Acts 8:9
There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great Being.
Acts 5:36
For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.
Acts 13:6
After passing through the whole island, they reached Paphos, where they found an astrologer who pretended to be a Prophet--a Jew by birth, whose name was Barjoshua.
John 7:18
The man who speaks on his own authority seeks honor for himself; but the man who seeks the honor of him that sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false in him.
Acts 8:11
And they paid attention to him because they had for a long time been mystified by his magic arts.
Acts 16:16-18
One day, as we were on our way to the Place of Prayer, we were met by a girl possessed by a divining spirit, who made large profits for her masters by fortune-telling.
Acts 19:18-20
Many, too, of those who had become believers in Christ came with a full confession of their practices;
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who so opposes himself to every one that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!
2 Timothy 3:2
Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,
2 Timothy 3:5
and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.
2 Timothy 3:8-9
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless.
2 Peter 2:18
With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
Revelation 13:13-14
It performs great marvels, even causing fire to fall from the heavens to the earth, before men's eyes;
Revelation 22:15
Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'