Bible Verses About False Teaching
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for false teaching, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,114 votes, led by 1 John 4:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about False Teaching
1 John 4:164 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.
2 Corinthians 11:13-1546 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2 John 1:7-1141 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.
Romans 16:1739 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 John 4:1-338 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.
2 Timothy 4:336 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;
Matthew 7:15-2035 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Colossians 2:834 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.
1 Timothy 6:3-534 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;
Ephesians 5:1133 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Timothy 4:3-433 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;
Matthew 24:2432 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.
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.
1 Timothy 6:20-2131 votes
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
2 Peter 2:131 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.
Matthew 7:1530 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
2 Peter 2:1-330 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.
Jude 1:430 votes
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:1-629 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.
Matthew 24:4-526 votes
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Acts 20:28-3026 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
2 John 1:726 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.
Jude 1:3-426 votes
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Revelation 12:926 votes
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Jeremiah 5:30-3125 votes
A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
What does the Bible say about false teaching?
Readers most often cite 1 John 4:1 on the subject of false teaching. Across 2,114 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 2 John 1:7-11, Romans 16:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.