11 Bible Verses about Counterfeits

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.

you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.

not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing, therefore, if his ministers transform themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.