11 Bible Verses about Counterfeits

Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.