11 Bible Verses about Counterfeits

Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

and not study Jewish fictions or commands given by men who reject the truth.

Timothy, guard what has been intrusted to you. Keep away from the worldly, empty phrases and contradictions of what they falsely call knowledge,

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

And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as a shining angel. So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.

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