Bible Verses About Cults
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cults, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 860 votes, led by 2 Peter 2:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cults
2 Peter 2:1102 votes
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 John 1:7-1198 votes
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 4:173 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Romans 16:17-1868 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
1 Timothy 4:162 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Leviticus 19:3155 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 13:17-2341 votes
Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
Matthew 7:15-1740 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Deuteronomy 18:10-1239 votes
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Leviticus 20:634 votes
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Hebrews 4:1233 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
James 2:1933 votes
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
John 1:130 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 Peter 1:20-2128 votes
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
1 John 2:1823 votes
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Romans 8:9-1121 votes
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
1 Corinthians 2:1420 votes
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Chronicles 33:618 votes
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 17:2-515 votes
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Revelation 21:814 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Isaiah 8:1913 votes
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
What does the Bible say about cults?
Readers most often cite 2 Peter 2:1 on the subject of cults. Across 860 votes, 21 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 John 1:7-11, 1 John 4:1, Romans 16:17-18. This page lists all 21 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.