8 Bible Verses about False Doctrines

and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

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.

See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ,

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;

O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called,

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

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.

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie:

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Likewise indeed these dreamers also pollute the flesh, and reject lordship, and blaspheme glories.

For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. So you also have those in a similar manner holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel; which is not another: but there are certain ones who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the gospel of Christ.

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.

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.

For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing; and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.

who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

In the manner in which Jannes and Jambres also resisted Moses, so these indeed resist the truth; men who are corrupt as to their mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they shall proceed no further: for their insanity will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and they will deceive many.

And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered:

If any one comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine; do not receive him into your house, and do not bid him God speed:

And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered:

I know, that after my departure grievous wolves will rise up against you, not sparing the flock;

and men from you yourselves will rise up, speaking perverse things, in order to lead away disciples after them.