7 Bible Verses about Apostasy, How To Avoid

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned, and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.read more.
All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fitted for every good work.

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience piety, and to piety brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.read more.
For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; for a man that is without these is blind, not seeing to a distance, and has forgotten the purification from his former errors. Wherefore, brothers, use the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things you shall never fall. For thus shall you have an abundant entrance given you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock, and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one of you with tears.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.read more.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them. We are of God; he that knows God hears us, he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;read more.
by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil; for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].read more.
Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and having put on the cuirass of righteousness, and bound your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; over all, taking the shield of the faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of evil. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying with all prayer and supplication on every occasion with the spirit, and watching in the same with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, and for me, that a word may be given me at the opening of my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.

preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction;