12 Bible Verses about False Teachers, Examples Of

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some who are clinging to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap for the children of Israel, to entice them to eat the meat that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit immoral practices.

Then they went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they found a Jewish magician and false prophet whose name was Barjesus.

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

"I know what you have done; your hard work and patient endurance; that you cannot tolerate wicked persons; that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles although they were not, and have found them to be imposters,

Some of the Epicurean and the Stoic philosophers began to debate with him; and some said, "What is this scraps-of-truth-picker trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities." They said so because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours!

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia, got to debating with Stephen,

Then the Pharisees went out and held a consultation with the Herodians against Him, to put Him to death.

Then they sent some Pharisees and Herodians to Him to trap Him in argument.

and their message will spread like a cancer; men like Hymenaeus and Philetus,

And you also have among you some who are clinging to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.