Bible Verses about “judging false teachers”

“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.”

“"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.”

“For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.”

“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?”

“You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.”

“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.”

“Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?”

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

“"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.”

“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;”

“Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."”

“Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.”

“By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?”

“and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.”

“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.”

“For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.”

“For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.”

“If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,”

“For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;”

“for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.”

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."”

“For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.”

“In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.”

“Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.”

“promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.”

“the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;”

“and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;”

“But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,”

“forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;”

“but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;”

“and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked”

“For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;”

“receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;”

“having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;”

“and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;”

“(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):”

“whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.”

“but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.”

“These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.”

“For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.”