13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

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

And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.

I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Then some from what is called the Freedmen’s Synagogue, composed of both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and disputed with Stephen.

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said.

And their word will spread like gangrene; Hymenaeus and Philetus are among them.

In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.