7 Bible Verses about Manipulation

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

No wonder they do, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Jesus replied, "Take care that no one misleads you;

Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

But in later days, the Spirit distinctly declares, certain people will rebel against the faith; they will listen to spirits of error and to the doctrines that daemons teach

for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days. For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent, callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness,read more.
they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God ??5 for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.