Matthew 7:15

The Sermon On The Mount: Recognizing False Prophets

¹⁴ For small is the gate, and narrow the road, that leads to Life, and those that find it are few. ¹⁵  Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ By the fruit of their lives you will know them. Do people gather grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

Beware of False Prophets

False Prophets

Outward Appearance

Take Heed

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.

Colossians 2:8

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

Matthew 24:11

Many false Prophets, also, will appear and lead many astray;

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves.

Luke 6:26

Alas for you when all men speak well of you; for this is what their ancestors did to the false Prophets.

Revelation 19:20

The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false Prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the fiery lake 'of burning sulphur.'

Matthew 10:17

Be on your guard against your fellow men, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their Synagogues;

Matthew 16:6

Presently Jesus said to them: "Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Matthew 16:11

How is it that you do not see that I was not speaking about bread? Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Matthew 24:4-5

Jesus replied to them as follows: "See that no one leads you astray;

Matthew 24:24-25

For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God's People would be led astray.

Mark 12:38-40

In the course of his teaching, Jesus said: "See that you are on your guard against the Teachers of the Law, who delight to walk about in long robes, and to be greeted in the streets with respect,

Mark 13:22-23

For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and display signs and marvels, to lead astray, were it possible, even God's People.

Luke 12:15

And then he added: "Take care to keep yourselves free from every form of covetousness; for even in the height of his prosperity a man's true Life does not depend on what he has."

John 10:12

The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.

Acts 13:40

Beware, therefore, that what is said in the Prophets does not come true of you--

Acts 20:29-31

I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;

Romans 16:17-18

I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ!

Galatians 2:4

But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

Ephesians 4:14

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

Ephesians 5:6

Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

Philippians 3:2

Beware of those 'dogs'! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves!

1 Timothy 4:1-3

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,

2 Timothy 3:5-9

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

2 Timothy 3:13

but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

2 Timothy 4:3

For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.

2 Peter 2:18-19

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.

2 Peter 3:17

Do you, therefore, dear friends, now that you know this beforehand, be on your guard against being led away by the errors of reckless people, and so lapsing from your present steadfastness;

Jude 1:4

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:11-17

Then I saw, rising out of the earth, another wild Beast. It had two horns like those of a lamb, and its voice was like a dragon's.

Revelation 16:13

And I saw three foul spirits, like frogs, come from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Christ's People and with the blood of the martyrs for Jesus. When I saw her, I was amazed beyond measure;

Acts 13:6

After passing through the whole island, they reached Paphos, where they found an astrologer who pretended to be a Prophet--a Jew by birth, whose name was Barjoshua.