13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

Nevertheless, I have against thee, a few things, - that thou hast there, such as hold fast the teaching of Balaam, - who went on to teach Balak to throw a cause of stumbling before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices and to commit lewdness:

And, passing through the whole island, as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a false-prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus;

and, from among your own selves, will arise men speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

I know thy works, and thy toil, and endurance, and that thou canst not bear bad men, and thou hast tried them who were affirming themselves to be apostles, and they were not, and hast found them false;

But, certain both of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were encountering him; and some were saying - What might this picker-up-of-scraps wish to be saying? And, others - Of foreign demons, he seemeth to be a declarer: because, of Jesus and the Resurrection, he was announcing the joyful tidings.

For I reckon not to have come a whit behind the exceeding overmuch apostles;

I have become foolish, - ye, compelled me: - I, in fact, ought, by you, to have been commended; for, not a whit, have I come behind the exceeding overmuch apostles, - even if I am nothing:

But there rose up certain of those out of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of them of Libertium and Cyrene and Alexandria, and certain of them from Cilicia and Asia, - disputing with Stephen;

And, the Pharisees, going out straightway with the Herodians, were giving counsel against him, that they should, destroy, him.

And they send forth unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might, catch, him, in discourse.

And, their discourse, as a gangrene, will eat its way; - of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

thus, even, thou, hast such as hold fast the teaching of the Nicolaitanes, in like manner.

And the serpent said unto the woman, - Ye shall not die,