Do You Know Who You Are? – 1 John 3:1–7
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100 Bible Verses about False Teachers
1 John 4:1 (ESV)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false
prophets have gone out into the world.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no
wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise
themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV)
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth
and wander off into myths.
2 Peter 2:1 (ESV)
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves
swift destruction.
1 Timothy 6:3-5 (ESV)
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and
the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an
unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil
suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining
that godliness is a means of gain.
Matthew 7:15 (ESV)
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Jude 1:4 (ESV)
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly
people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:11 (ESV)
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
2 Peter 2:1-3 (ESV)
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves
swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be
blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not
idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Romans 16:17-18 (ESV)
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the
doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own
appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
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Colossians 2:8 (ESV)
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition,
according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Matthew 7:15-20 (ESV)
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will
recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy
tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a
diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...
Matthew 24:24 (ESV)
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if
possible, even the elect.
1 John 4:1-6 (ESV)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false
prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children,
you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They
are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
Galatians 1:6-9 (ESV)
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to
a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the
gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one
we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching
to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
2 Timothy 3:5 (ESV)
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2 Timothy 3:13 (ESV)
While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Ephesians 4:14 (ESV)
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of
doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 (ESV)
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
Romans 16:17 (ESV)
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the
doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
2 Peter 2:1-22 (ESV)
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves
swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be
blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not
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idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into
hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the
ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood
upon the world of the ungodly; ...
Deuteronomy 13:1-3 (ESV)
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not
known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For
the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul.
1 John 2:26-27 (ESV)
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from
him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you
about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 Timothy 6:20-21 (ESV)
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely
called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
2 John 1:7 (ESV)
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the
flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Acts 20:29 (ESV)
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
Matthew 24:11 (ESV)
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
Acts 17:11 (ESV)
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness,
examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
1 Timothy 4:1 (ESV)
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to
deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
John 8:44 (ESV)
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of
his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of
my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them,
‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
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Revelation 12:9 (ESV)
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver
of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
1 Timothy 6:5 (ESV)
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that
godliness is a means of gain.
Luke 6:26 (ESV)
“Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
2 Timothy 4:3 (ESV)
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
John 14:6 (ESV)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Revelation 22:18-19 (ESV)
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to
him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Matthew 24:4-5 (ESV)
And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am
the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
Jude 1:3-4 (ESV)
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write
appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have
crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the
grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Mark 13:22 (ESV)
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the
elect.
2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness,
1 Timothy 1:18-20 (ESV)
This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you,
that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some
have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over
to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 (ESV)
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not
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known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For
the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his
voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to
death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt
and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God
commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
1 John 4:1-3 (ESV)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false
prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
Jeremiah 14:14 (ESV)
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I
command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the
deceit of their own minds.
Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with
vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
Jude 1:3
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write
appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
1 Timothy 1:3-4
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons
not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which
promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
Acts 20:28-30
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to
care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves
will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking
twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
2 John 1:7-11
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the
flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have
worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of
Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly
handling the word of truth.
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1 Timothy 4:1-3
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to
deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who
forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those
who believe and know the truth.
2 John 1:10-11
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any
greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
Romans 8:7
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
1 John 2:22
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and
the Son.
Matthew 7:15-16
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will
recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who
speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we
know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word
does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any
good work.
Revelation 1:1
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take
place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Acts 20:29-30
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among
your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Titus 1:10-16
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision
party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they
ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts,
lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not
devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. ...
Titus 1:9
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound
doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
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Isaiah 8:20
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no
dawn.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and
their destruction is not asleep.
Ephesians 4:14-15
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of
doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to
grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Deuteronomy 13:1-18
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not
known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For
the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all
your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his
voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to
death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt
and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God
commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. ...
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons
of disobedience.
James 3:1
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with
greater strictness.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
1 John 2:18-19
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have
come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had
been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are
not of us.
Jeremiah 5:30-31
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule
at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
2 Peter 2:2
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
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2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
John 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but
have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world
might be saved through him.
2 Peter 2:1-2
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves
swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be
blasphemed.
Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought
not to teach.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace,
not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
2 Peter 1:19
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is
teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
1 John 2:27
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach
you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you,
abide in him.
2 Corinthians 11:1-4
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you,
since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the
serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to
Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a
different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you
put up with it readily enough.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to
deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
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Micah 3:5
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have
something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a
sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Matthew 7:15-23
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will
recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy
tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a
diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...
Galatians 1:8
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to
you, let him be accursed.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the
sight of God we speak in Christ.
2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience
and teaching.
Jeremiah 23:1-40
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. Therefore thus
says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my
flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil
deeds, declares the Lord. Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have
driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. I will set shepherds
over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing,
declares the Lord. “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous
Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ...
James 3:18
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
2 Timothy 2:16-18
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread
like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the
resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.
Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second
death.”
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2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any
greeting,
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in
Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
1 Timothy 4:1-5
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to
deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who
forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those
who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is
received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who
enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are
few.
Revelation 2:14-15
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak
to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice
sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Matthew 16:11-12
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mel Dahlgren
Senior Pastor
South Bay Christian Church
(408) 218-2640
mdahlgren@gcisouthbay.org
www.gcisouthbay.org
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