52 Bible Verses about False Teachings

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. So you also have those in a similar manner holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Therefore if any one may break one of the least of these commandments, and so teach the people, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whosoever may do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

But we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering unto him; that you be not suddenly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, whether by a spirit, or through word, or a letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord has come.

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience, forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who says herself to be a prophet, and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication, and to cat things sacrificed to idols.

But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world, Touch not, taste not, handle not, those things which are all unto destruction by use according to the commandments and teachings of the people?read more.
Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith: but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:read more.
from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking, wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.

However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves.

I know, that after my departure grievous wolves will rise up against you, not sparing the flock; and men from you yourselves will rise up, speaking perverse things, in order to lead away disciples after them.

For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

and men from you yourselves will rise up, speaking perverse things, in order to lead away disciples after them.

in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion;

O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called, which some proclaiming have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

Be not carried away with fantastical and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, in which those going round were not profited.

having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin; beguiling unestablished souls: having a heart which has been made fat with covetousness; children of the curse: leaving the straight way, they have wandered off, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of iniquity; and had the conviction of his own conscience:

I have written these things unto you concerning those deceiving you.

And many will follow their impurities; through whom the way of truth will be slandered:

And Jesus responding said to them, See, lest any one may deceive you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and they will deceive many.

And Jesus began to say to them, See, lest any one may deceive you. For many will come in my name, saying, I am He; and will deceive many. I

For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion; promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.read more.
You are of God, little children, and you have conquered them; because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world: on this account they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

for false Christs and false prophets will rise up, and give great signs and wonders; so as to deceive even the elect, if possible.

For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders, to deceive even the elect, if possible.

whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he continued to speak as the dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast before him. And he makes the earth and those dwelling in it, that they shall worship the first beast, whose wound of his death was healed. And he performs great signs, so that he can indeed make fire descend out of the heaven to the earth in presence of the people.read more.
And he deceives those dwelling upon the earth through the signs which it was given unto him to perform in the presence of the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who had the wound of the sword, and did live. And it was given unto him to give spirit to the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast may indeed speak, and he may cause so many as will not worship the image of the beast that they should be killed.

But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience,

but I fear, lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. For if indeed one coming preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, well do you bear with him.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for these are the spirits of demons, working miracles, which go forth to the kings of the whole earth, to lead them together into the war of the great day of God Almighty.

and in their covetousness they will sell you with their soft speeches: unto whom judgment from olden time tarries not, and their destruction does not slumber.

See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ,

In this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of antichrist, which you have heard that he is coming; and now he is already in the world.

You have an unction from the Holy One, and you all know. I have not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar except the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son.read more.
No one denying the Son has the Father: the one confessing the Son has also the Father.

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles? So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.read more.
A good tree is not able to produce evil fruits, neither is a corrupt tree able to produce beautiful fruits. Every tree not producing beautiful fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. Therefore you shall know them perfectly by their fruits.

for you bear with them, if any one enslaves you, if any one devours you, if any one captures you, if any one is exalted against you, if any one smites you in the face.

Little children, let no one deceive you. The one doing righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Every one having been born of God does not sin; because his seed remains in him: and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.read more.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.

If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

But reject the unsanctified empty talks: for they will proceed unto more of ungodliness, and their word like gangrene will have eating. Of whom are Hymenaeus and Phyletus; who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

Let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If that which you heard from the beginning may abide in you, you also are abiding in the Son, and in the Father.

I am astonished that you are so quickly removed from him who called you in the grace of Christ into another gospel; which is not another: but there are certain ones who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the gospel of Christ. But indeed if we, or an angel from heaven, may preach unto you any other gospel except that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.read more.
As we have before said, and now again I tell you, If any one preaches to you a gospel except that which you have received, let him be accursed.

This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith; of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Hold fast the form of sound words which you heard with me, in the faith and divine love which is in Christ Jesus: stand guard over the beautiful deposit through the Holy Ghost who dwells in us.

But I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and stumblings, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and depart from them. For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men will be lovers of themselves, moneylovers, arrogant, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without natural affections, covenant breakers, devilish, intemperate, furious, opposed to good,read more.
traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power of the same: and from these turn away. For of these are those creeping into houses, and leading captive little, silly women laden with sins, being led by divers lusts, always learning, and never able to come into the perfect knowledge of the truth. In the manner in which Jannes and Jambres also resisted Moses, so these indeed resist the truth; men who are corrupt as to their mind, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their insanity will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain. Reject a heretical man after the first and second admonition; knowing that such an one is turned away, and is sinning, being self-condemned.

Every one going forth, and not abiding in the teaching of Christ, has not God; the one abiding in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. If any one comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine; do not receive him into your house, and do not bid him God speed: for the one bidding him God speed partakes of his evil deeds.