13 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit lewdness.

And when they had gone through the isle to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

Also from your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? some others, He seemeth to be a setter-forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection.

For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very greatest apostles.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very greatest apostles, though I am nothing.

Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia, and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

And the Pharisees went forth, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees, and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die: