• 1 Timothy 4:1-6
  Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.
   
• Matthew 24:23-25
  “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
   
• Colossians 2:8-10
  Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
   
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
  Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
   
• Acts 20:28-32
  Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. "So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
   
• Jude 1:8-10
  Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
   
• Jude 1:16-19
  These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
   
• Revelation 19:20-21
  Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.
   
• 2 John 1:9-11
  Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
   
• Jeremiah 5:30-31
  "An astonishing and horrible thing
  Has been committed in the land:
  The prophets prophesy falsely,
  And the priests rule by their own power;
  And My people love to have it so.
  But what will you do in the end?
  
   
• Jeremiah 6:13-14
  " Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
  Everyone is given to covetousness;
  And from the prophet even to the priest,
  Everyone deals falsely.
  They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,
  Saying, "Peace, peace!"
  When there is no peace.
  
   
• Jeremiah 23:21-22
  " I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
  I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
  But if they had stood in My counsel,
  And had caused My people to hear My words,
  Then they would have turned them from their evil way
  And from the evil of their doings.
  
   
• Jeremiah 23:25-27
  “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
  
   
• Ezekiel 13:9-10
  “My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar—
   

Related Scriptures

• John 8:44
  You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
   
• 2 Timothy 4:3-4
  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
   
• Revelation 12:9-10
  So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 'Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
   
• Romans 8:7
  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
   
• Galatians 5:19-21
  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
   
• Ephesians 6:11
  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
   
• 2 Thessalonians 2:12
  that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
   
• Genesis 3:1
  Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden"?"
   
• Matthew 13:24-30
  Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, "Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?" He said to them, "An enemy has done this." The servants said to him, "Do you want us then to go and gather them up?" But he said, "No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."""
   
• Acts 17:11-12
  These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
   
• 1 Peter 5:8-9
  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
   
• Matthew 7:6
  "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.
   
• John 14:15
  "If you love Me, keep My commandments.
   
• 2 Timothy 2:14-16
  Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
   
• 1 John 3:7
  Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
   
• 1 John 3:24
  Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
   
• Revelation 3:11
  Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
   
• Revelation 12:17
  And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
   
• Revelation 16:13-16
  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
   
• Jeremiah 17:10
  I, the LORD, search the heart,
  I test the mind,
  Even to give every man according to his ways,
  According to the fruit of his doings.
  
   
• Hosea 4:6
  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
  Because you have rejected knowledge,
  I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
  Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
  I also will forget your children.
  
   
• Zechariah 13:3-5
  It shall come to pass that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father and mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies. “And it shall be in that day that every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive. But he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’
   
• John 8:47
  He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."
   
• John 15:19
  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
   
• 1 Corinthians 3:3
  for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
   
• 1 Corinthians 15:33-34
  Do not be deceived: 'Evil company corrupts good habits.' Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
   
• James 4:4
  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
   
• 1 John 2:16
  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
   
• 1 John 5:3
  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
   
• Revelation 2:6
  But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
   
• Revelation 13:13-14
  He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
   
• Psalm 37:7-9
  Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;
  Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
  Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
  Do not fret—it only causes harm. For evildoers shall be cut off;
  But those who wait on the LORD,
  They shall inherit the earth.
  
   
• Psalm 111:10
  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
  A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.
  His praise endures forever.
  
   
• Proverbs 2:3
  Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
  And lift up your voice for understanding,
  
   
• Proverbs 14:15
  The simple believes every word,
  But the prudent considers well his steps.
  
   
• Ecclesiastes 8:11-13
  Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
   
• Isaiah 30:10
  Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
  And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.