11 Bible Verses about False Apostles, Prophets And Teachers
Most Relevant Verses
But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles?
BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus,
For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath, which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's. Let no one wishing [it] deprive you of your reward by humility and a worship of angels, intruding into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind,read more.
and not holding the head, from which all the body being supplied and compacted by means of joints and tendons grows with an increase of God. If therefore you died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do you practice ordinances as living in the world,??21 you shall not touch, you shall not taste, you shall not feel,??22 all which are to perish in the using??ccording to the commandments and instructions of men? Which have an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship and humiliation, and in a rigorous treatment of the body, [which is held] in no respect for the surfeiting of the flesh.
Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood. For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock, and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
For I am zealous for you with a godly zeal, for I joined you, a chaste virgin, to one husband, to present to Christ; but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.
But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.
I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false;
but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] if these things were so.
