Bible Verses About False Doctrines
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for false doctrines, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,893 votes, led by 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about False Doctrines
2 Timothy 4:3-4131 votes
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
1 Timothy 6:3117 votes
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
2 Corinthians 11:13-1575 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
1 John 4:1-373 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.
Galatians 1:6-1072 votes
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
1 John 4:167 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.
1 Timothy 1:353 votes
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
2 Peter 2:1-348 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.
John 14:645 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
1 Corinthians 14:3343 votes
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Isaiah 5:2040 votes
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Acts 20:2939 votes
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
1 Timothy 4:135 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;
1 Timothy 6:3-535 votes
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
John 8:4431 votes
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Revelation 13:1-1831 votes
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Colossians 2:829 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2 Peter 2:129 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.
Jeremiah 5:30-3128 votes
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
Matthew 24:2427 votes
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 7:1525 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
John 3:1623 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 7:21-2322 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Ephesians 4:1422 votes
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
1 Timothy 1:3-422 votes
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
What does the Bible say about false doctrines?
Readers most often cite 2 Timothy 4:3-4 on the subject of false doctrines. Across 1,893 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 6:3, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 1 John 4:1-3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.