Ephesians 4:14

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

James 1:6

But he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

Hebrews 13:9

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

Matthew 11:7

But as they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

Matthew 24:11

Many false prophets will appear and mislead many people;

Matthew 24:24

for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.

Romans 16:17-18

But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.

2 Corinthians 2:17

Now who is qualified for such a task? I am, for I am not a peddler of God's message, like the most of them, but like a man of sincerity, like a man that is sent from God and living in His presence, in union with Christ I speak His message.

2 Corinthians 4:2

On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.

Ephesians 6:11

You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

Colossians 2:4-8

I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.

1 John 4:1

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Matthew 18:3-4

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

Acts 20:30-31

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

Acts 23:21

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were heathen you were in the habit of going off, wherever you might be led, after idols that could not speak.

2 Corinthians 11:3-4

But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

Galatians 1:6-7

I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,

Galatians 3:1

O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

2 Thessalonians 2:2-5

not to let your minds be easily unsettled or even be excited, whether by some message by the Spirit or by some saying or letter that is claimed as coming from me, saying that the day of the Lord is already here.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10

that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met.

1 Timothy 4:6-7

If you continue to put these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever feeding your own soul on the truths of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone here who belongs to the Roman province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 2:17-18

and their message will spread like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

2 Timothy 3:6-9

For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

2 Timothy 3:13

But bad men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, misleading others and misled themselves.

2 Timothy 4:3

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,

Hebrews 5:12-14

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

James 3:4

Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases.

2 Peter 2:1-3

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,

1 John 2:19

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

1 John 2:26

I write you this with reference to those who are trying to lead you astray,

Jude 1:12

They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Revelation 13:11-14

Then I saw another wild beast coming up out of the land. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 19:20

Then the wild beast was captured and with him the false prophet who performed wonders in his presence, by which he led astray those who let the mark of the wild beast be put on them and worshiped his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns with brimstone.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

No more

Matthew 18:3
and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.
1 Corinthians 3:1
So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.
Hebrews 5:12
For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

Tossed

Acts 20:30
Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
Romans 16:17
But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ.
Galatians 1:6
I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,
Galatians 3:1
O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?
Colossians 2:4
I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.
2 Thessalonians 2:2
not to let your minds be easily unsettled or even be excited, whether by some message by the Spirit or by some saying or letter that is claimed as coming from me, saying that the day of the Lord is already here.
1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you continue to put these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever feeding your own soul on the truths of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed.
2 Timothy 1:15
You know that everyone here who belongs to the Roman province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
2 Timothy 2:17
and their message will spread like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,
2 Timothy 3:6
For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,
2 Timothy 4:3
For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,
Hebrews 13:9
You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.
2 Peter 2:1
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
1 John 2:19
They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.
1 John 4:1
Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By the

Matthew 24:11
Many false prophets will appear and mislead many people;
2 Corinthians 2:17
Now who is qualified for such a task? I am, for I am not a peddler of God's message, like the most of them, but like a man of sincerity, like a man that is sent from God and living in His presence, in union with Christ I speak His message.
2 Corinthians 4:2
On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,
2 Peter 2:18
For by uttering arrogant nonsense, through base desires of the lower nature, they entice into immorality men who are just escaping from those who live in error,
Revelation 13:11
Then I saw another wild beast coming up out of the land. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 19:20
Then the wild beast was captured and with him the false prophet who performed wonders in his presence, by which he led astray those who let the mark of the wild beast be put on them and worshiped his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns with brimstone.

Lie

Acts 23:21
But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

General references

John 10:5
But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."