Guard Against False Teaching

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. — read the full passage →

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour. — read the full passage →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray. — read the full passage →

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. — read the full passage →

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, — read the full passage →

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?”

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. — read the full passage →

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News. — read the full passage →

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; — read the full passage →

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; — read the full passage →

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — read the full passage →

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. — read the full passage →

the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it, — read the full passage →

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets. — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. — read the full passage →

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me. — read the full passage →

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. — read the full passage →

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →