13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

And [when they] had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name [was] Bar-Jesus,

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, "What does this babbler want to say?" But [others said], "He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was proclaiming the good news [about] Jesus and the resurrection.

For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.

I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for [I am] in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen ({as it was called}), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up [and] disputed with Stephen.

And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians {and began to conspire} against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

And they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him so that they could catch him unawares in a statement.

and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die.