Bible Verses about “gnosticism”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

“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.”

“One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.”

“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”

“As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.”

“This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.”

“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”

“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.”

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

“The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

“My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.”

“You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.”

“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.”

“But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:”

“He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.”

“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.”

“I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”

“These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.”

“Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”

“Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.”

“Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.”

“If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.”

“Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.”

“Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.”

“I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.”

“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.”

“I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.”

“This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.”

“and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.”

“By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,”

“but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;”

“Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;”

“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.”

“and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:”

“that no flesh should boast before God.”

“For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;”

“But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,”

“So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.”

“which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.”

“We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.”

“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”

“But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:”

“which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.”

“but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,”

“For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.”