13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

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

When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles (but are not), and have discovered that they are false.

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, "What does this foolish babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods." (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those "super-apostles."

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those "super-apostles," even though I am nothing.

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

In the same way, there are also some among you who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,