11 Bible Verses about Counterfeits

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

him, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.

for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,