8 Bible Verses about False Doctrines

By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring.

As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction.

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:

that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:

By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring.

who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre.

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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

wherefore God will suffer a spirit of delusion to work them into the belief of a lye:

for these are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguised so as to pass for true apostles.

yet these visionary debauchees despise princes, and traduce dignitys.

For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. you have likewise those that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.

If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety, he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

from me, who called you by the grace of Christ; this can be owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and revolts against the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them. for such as these serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own selfishness; and by flourish and flattery, deceive the open-hearted simple.

but tho' I, or an angel from heaven should preach any thing to you for gospel, different from the gospel I have preached unto you, let him be accursed. as I said before, so say I now again, if any one preach any other thing to you for gospel, than what you have received, let him be accursed.

for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery: which, while they are deaf to the truth, attentively listen to fables.

they have deserted the faith themselves, and debauch'd the faith of others, by maintaining, "the resurrection is already past."

Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.

but they will be stop'd in their career; for they shall be expos'd to the world for impostors, as those magicians were.

Now the spirit says expresly, that in the latter times some shall abandon the faith, by giving credit to seducing spirits, and the doctrine concerning demons;

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ: and shall deceive many.

many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd.

whoever comes to you unaccompanied with this doctrine, don't admit him to your house, nor treat him with the common term of civility.

many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd.

for I know when I am gone, you will be oppress'd by wolves, that will not spare the flock.

nay, among your own body some will start up to vent their intricate conceits, and draw a number of followers.