2 Timothy 2:16
But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,
Ezra 10:10
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting [is] not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8
For the mystery of lawlessness is at work already; only the one who now restrains [will do so] until he is out of the way,
1 Timothy 4:7
But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Titus 1:11
whom it is necessary to silence, whoever are ruining whole families [by] teaching [things] which must not be [taught] for the sake of dishonest gain.
Titus 1:14
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.
Hebrews 12:15
Take care [that] no one falls short of the grace of God; [that] no one growing up [like] a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
2 Peter 2:2
And many will follow their licentious ways, because of whom the way of truth will be reviled.
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
Revelation 13:3
And one of its heads [appeared] as though slaughtered to death, and its {fatal wound} had been healed. And the whole earth was astonished [and followed] after the beast.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and [yet] lived.