12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus.

and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.

I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superfine apostles of yours.

I have been making a fool of myself, but you forced me to do it, when you ought to have been expressing your approval of me. For I am not a bit inferior to your superfine apostles, even if I am nobody!

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia undertook to debate with Stephen,

Then the Pharisees left the synagogue and immediately consulted with the Herodians about Jesus, with a view to putting him to death.

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

and their teaching spreads like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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