13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

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

"'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.