12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

But I have a few things against thee; for thou hast there those 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 fornication.

And going quite through the island even to Paphos, they found there a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus.

And from among yourselves shall 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 those that are evil: and thou hast tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars; and hast borne trouble, and hast patience;

But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him; and some said, What would this babler say? and others, He seemeth to be a proclaimer of foreign deities: because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

For I think I was not inferior to the very chiefest apostles: and if I am unskilled in speech,

Am I become vain in boasting? ye have forced me to it: for I ought to have been recommended by you, as I have in nothing fallen short of the very chiefest of the apostles, though in myself I am nothing.

But there rose up some of the synagogue, which is called that of the libertines, and some of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia, and Asia, to dispute with Stephen:

And the pharisees went out, and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how to destroy Him:

And they send to Him some of the pharisees, and of the Herodians to insnare Him in his discourse:

and their discourse will eat like a gangrene. Of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus; who have erred from the truth,

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