Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Bible References
There
Matthew 18:7
Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!
Luke 17:1
And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!
Acts 20:30
and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
Which
Deuteronomy 13:3
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Luke 2:35
(and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that the thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.
2 Corinthians 13:5
examine your own selves if ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: do ye not recognise yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed ye be reprobates?