Bible verses about "heresy" | ABU
Galatians 1:8-9
Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Galatians 1:7
7 which is not another, except that there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Acts 15:24
24 Forasmuch as we heard, that some who went out from us troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law, to whom we gave no commandment;
Jude 1:3-16
3 Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I found it needful for me to write to you exhorting to contend earnestly for the faith, delivered once for all to the saints.
4 For there crept in stealthily certain men, who of old were appointed beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Master, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 But I wish to remind you, as once knowing all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not.
6 And angels who kept not their principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after other flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Yet, in like manner, these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, despise dominion, and rail at dignities.
9 But Michael the archangel, when, contending with the Devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said: The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things naturally, as the brute beasts, they understand, in these they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
12 These are rocks in your feasts of love, feasting with you fearlessly, feeding their own selves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
14 Yea, and of these Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord came, with his holy myriads.
15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all their acts of ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.
16 These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words; having respect to persons, for the sake of profit.
2 Peter 2:15
15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
2 John 1:11
11 for he that bids him good speed shares in his evil deeds.
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest; which are, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, emulation, wraths, contentions, divisions, factions,
21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings; and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 11:4
4 For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we preached not, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye received not, or a different gospel, which ye accepted not, ye might well bear with it.
2 John 1:10
10 If any one comes to you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your house, and do not bid him good speed;
2 Peter 2:1
1 BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Titus 3:10
10 A man that causes divisions, after a first and second admonition, avoid;
1 John 4:1
1 BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
2 Peter 2:1-22
1 BUT there were false prophets also among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who stealthily will bring in destructive factions, even denying as Master him who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow their dissolute ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of.
3 And in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
4 For if God spared not angels, having sinned, but casting them down to hell delivered them over to chains of darkness, reserved unto judgment;
5 and spared not the old world, but kept Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood on the world of ungodly men,
6 and turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah condemned them to overthrow, having made them an example of those who should afterward live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, wearied out with the lewd conduct of the lawless;
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, with seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust under punishment to the day of judgment;
10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;
11 whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,
13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they who account reveling for a day pleasure; spots, and blemishes, reveling in their own deceits while feasting with you;
14 having eyes full of the adulteress, and that cease not from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;
15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
16 but was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
18 For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error;
19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage.
20 For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog, returned to his own vomit; and, A sow that was washed, to the wallowing in the mire.