2 Timothy 2:16
Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,
Titus 3:9
But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall 'theology,'
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived. 'Good character is marred by evil company.'
2 Thessalonians 2:7-8
Wickedness, indeed, is already at work in secret; but only until he who at present restrains it is removed out of the way.
1 Timothy 4:7
As for profane legends and old wives' tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.
2 Timothy 3:13
but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.
Titus 1:14
and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.
Hebrews 12:15
Take care that no one fails to use the loving help of God, 'that no bitterness is allowed to take root and spring up, and cause trouble,' and so poison the whole community.
2 Peter 2:2
There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.
2 Peter 2:18
With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
Revelation 13:3
One of its heads seemed to me to have been mortally wounded, but its deadly wound had been healed. The whole earth followed the Beast, wondering;
Revelation 13:14
and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It bids those who live on the earth to make a statue in honour of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived.