13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

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

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish occult practitioner and false prophet named Bar-jesus.

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

I do not think I'm inferior in any way to those "super-apostles."

I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.

But some men who belonged to the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), as well as some Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and began to debate with Stephen.

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

You also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

"You certainly will not die!" the Shining One told the woman.