10 Bible Verses about False Doctrine, Dangers Of

in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith; of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

But reject the unsanctified empty talks: for they will proceed unto more of ungodliness, and their word like gangrene will have eating. Of whom are Hymenaeus and Phyletus; who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

Then you, beloved, foreknowing watch, lest, having been led away by the delusion of the ungodly, you may fall from your own stedfastness:

But I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and stumblings, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and depart from them. For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.