12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

Having travers'd the isle as far as to Paphos, they found a Jew there nam'd Barjesus, who was a false prophet and magician:

nay, among your own body some will start up to vent their intricate conceits, and draw a number of followers.

I know thy works, thy labour, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear those who are evil: thou hast tried those who say they are apostles, but are not; and hast found them lyars:

there certain Epicurean and Stoick philosophers encountred him: "what does this mountebank mean?" said some: "he seems to proclaim some strange deitys," said others: because he talk'd to them of Jesus and the resurrection.

for I think I am not at all inferior to the chiefest of the apostles.

Am I become vain? 'tis you have forc'd me to it: for I ought to have been commended by you: since I am not inferior to the chiefest of the apostles, tho' in myself I am nothing.

when some out of the several synagogues, belonging to the freed men, to the Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and to those of Cilicia, and of Asia, came to dispute with Stephen.

upon this the Pharisees withdrew, and immediately enter'd into a conspiracy with the Herodians to take away his life.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians to insnare him in his discourse.

and their doctrine will spread like the gangrene. Hymeneus and Philetus are such:

you have likewise those that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.