Bible Verses About False Teachers - Scripture
Warning
Correct and sound doctrine is crucial to salvation and growth in spiritual
maturity. It comes as no surprise that God warns us many times in Scripture to
be aware of false teaching. Christians need to be able to recognize false
teachers in order to know when they are being led down a path that God did not
intend! The following Bible verses will help you determine whether someone is
teaching false doctrine and how you should handle the deceptive teacher.
14 So
then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to
be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15 Bear
in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul
also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He
writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to
understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other
Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned,
be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the
lawless and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
1 Dear
friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they
are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit
of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not
from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming
and even now is already in the world. 4 You, dear children, are from God and
have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who
is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore
speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are
from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does
not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit
of falsehood.
12 So I
will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are
firmly established in the truth you now have. 13 I think it is right to refresh your
memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, 14
because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made
clear to me. 15 And I will make every effort to see that after my
departure you will always be able to remember these things. 16 For we
did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 He received honor and glory from God the
Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my
Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” 18 We ourselves heard this voice that came
from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain. 19 We
also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will
do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until
the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 20 Above
all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the
prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the
human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried
along by the Holy Spirit.
6 An
elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and
are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7 Since an overseer manages God’s
household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given
to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8 Rather,
he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled,
upright, holy and disciplined. 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy
message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound
doctrine and refute those who oppose it. 10 For there are many rebellious people,
full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision
group. 11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households
by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest
gain. 12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are
always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.” 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke
them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14 and
will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those
who reject the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to
those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both
their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their
actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing
anything good.
1 But
there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false
teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even
denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on
themselves. 2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the
way of truth into disrepute. 3 In their greed these teachers will
exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their
destruction has not been sleeping. 4 For if God did not spare angels when
they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be
held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when
he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of
righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to
happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man,
who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for
that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his
righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this
is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the
unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who
follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and
arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; 11 yet
even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on
such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord. 12 But
these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like
unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and
destroyed, and like animals they too will perish. 13 They
will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure
is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in
their pleasures while they feast with you. 14 With eyes full of adultery, they never
stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed
brood! 15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow
the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16 But he
was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke
with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. 17 These people are springs without water
and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 18 For
they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of
the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in
error. 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are
slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” 20 If
they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off
at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not
to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn
their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog
returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in
the mud.”
1 Then
Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the
Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything
they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they
preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other
people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to
move them. 5 “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make
their phylacterieswide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they
love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the
synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces
and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others. 8 “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’
for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do
not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in
heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one
Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your
servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
who humble themselves will be exalted. 13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in
people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who
are trying to. 15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win
a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a
child of hell as you are. 16
“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means
nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that
oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which
is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the
altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is
bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which
is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the
altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple
swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears
by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it. 23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and
cumin. But you have neglected the more
important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have
practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind
guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 “Woe
to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the
outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and
self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside
of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 “Woe
to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like
whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are
full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the
same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside
you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. 29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and
Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the
graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the
days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the
blood of the prophets.’
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