Bible Verses About Judging False Teachers
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for judging false teachers, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,322 votes, led by Romans 16:17-18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Judging False Teachers
Romans 16:17-18341 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Matthew 7:15317 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
1 John 4:1309 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 John 1:10-11200 votes
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Colossians 2:8194 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.
John 7:24193 votes
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
2 Timothy 4:3-4170 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 John 1:7158 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.
Matthew 7:1-5144 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Matthew 7:16132 votes
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Ephesians 5:11123 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Peter 2:1-22123 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 8:44102 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.
2 John 1:1098 votes
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Romans 16:1792 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 2:287 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:
Galatians 5:22-2377 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Matthew 7:173 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
James 4:11-1263 votes
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Matthew 7:15-2050 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
1 Corinthians 2:1550 votes
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
2 Timothy 4:1049 votes
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
1 Peter 5:849 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
2 Peter 2:149 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 Corinthians 11:13-1548 votes
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
What does the Bible say about judging false teachers?
Readers most often cite Romans 16:17-18 on the subject of judging false teachers. Across 6,322 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 7:15, 1 John 4:1, 2 John 1:10-11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.