8 Bible Verses about False Doctrines

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Therefore a night shall be to you without vision; and darkness without divining. And the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners ashamed; yea, they shall all cover their mustache, for there is no answer from God.

Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science,

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith).

For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your fortune-tellers in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you dream.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision from their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because no light is in them.

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

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,

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

Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.

For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication. So you also have those who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,

I marvel that you so soon are being moved away from Him who called you into the grace of Christ, to another gospel, which is not another, but some are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them. For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.

But even if we or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we said before, and now I say again, If anyone preaches a gospel to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed.

For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear. And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.

who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.

But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they shall proceed no further. For their foolishness shall be plain to all, as theirs also became.

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

For many will come in My name, saying, I am Christ, and will deceive many.

And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, nor speak a greeting to him.

And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.