11 Bible Verses about False Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Beloved, believe not every spirit; but prove the spirits, whether they are from God: for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is from God:

And having gone through the island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus;

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans forming themselves into the apostles of Christ; and no wonder, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves so as to be like the ministers of righteousness; of such, the end shall be according to their works.

Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths, which things are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is in Christ, Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,read more.
and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God. If, then, you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to ordinances? Touch not, taste not, handle not, (all of which are for the destruction of those who use them,) according to the commandments and teachings of men; and these have a show of wisdom in will-worship and affected humility and neglect of the body, and in no regard for the gratification of the flesh.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock; and men will arise from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, that they may draw off disciples after them.

for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be ac cursed.

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience; and that you can not bear with those who are evil, and that you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars;

These were of a better disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.