5 Bible Verses about Heresy

"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.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, to whom we gave no commandment;

and there is not another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning; knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not welcome him, for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me. But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the Law, and which are written in the Prophets; having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection, both of the just and unjust. read more.
Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."