Bible Verses About Identifying False Teachers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for identifying false teachers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,415 votes, led by Matthew 7:15-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Identifying False Teachers
Matthew 7:15-20163 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
1 John 4:1162 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 4:3-4146 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;
2 Corinthians 11:13-15145 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2 Peter 2:1-3135 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 1:7-11116 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.
Galatians 1:6-9110 votes
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Matthew 24:24109 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.
Romans 16:17-18101 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Revelation 2:297 votes
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
1 Timothy 4:1-390 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;
Acts 20:28-3088 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.
Titus 1:10-1668 votes
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
2 Timothy 2:16-1858 votes
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
Jude 1:456 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 Timothy 6:3-554 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 Peter 2:150 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 7:21-2345 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.
Matthew 24:1140 votes
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 7:1537 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
2 Timothy 3:1-535 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Matthew 7:15-1632 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Galatians 1:8-931 votes
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
2 Peter 2:1-2231 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.
Acts 20:28-3128 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.
What does the Bible say about identifying false teachers?
Readers most often cite Matthew 7:15-20 on the subject of identifying false teachers. Across 2,415 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.