12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

Now as they travelled through the island as far as Paphos, they found a certain person who professed magic, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:

Yea, from among yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverting doctrines, to draw away disciples after them.

I know thy works, and thy travail, and thy patience, and that thou canst not bear the wicked; and hast tried those who give themselves out as apostles, yet are not, and hast found them liars;

Then certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him: and some said, What will this chattering fellow say? but others, He seemeth to be a preacher of foreign deities, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

For I reckon myself to be nothing inferior to the very chief of the apostles.

Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

Then rose up certain men of the synagogue of the freed-men, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

And the Pharisees instantly going out, held a council with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in discourse.

And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus;

Thou hast also some who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I abhor.