11 Bible Verses about Counterfeits

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ, for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge"

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. It is no great marvel, then, if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.