12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

They covered the whole island as far as Paphos, where they fell in with a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet called Bar-Jesus;

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection').

I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!

Now this is playing the fool! But you forced me to it, instead of coming forward yourselves and vouching for me. That was what I deserved; for, 'nobody' as I am, I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles.'

Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him.

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

and their doctrine spreads like a gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus;

So even with you; you likewise have some adherents of the tenets of the Nicolaitans.