13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus,

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

I have become foolish. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

And the Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,