Bible verses about "cults" | Godbey

¹⁷ But I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and stumblings, contrary to the teaching which you have learned, and depart from them. ¹⁸ For such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach; and through fair speeches and eulogies deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁴ But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, from which we know that it is the last hour.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

⁹ But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you.

²⁰ know this in the first place, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹ For in the olden time prophecy did not come by the will of man: but men moved by the Holy Ghost spoke from God.

¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves. ¹⁶ You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits.

¹⁹ Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble.

¹² For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and a quick discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

¹ But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹ However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

⁷ Because many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh; the same is the deceiver and the antichrist. ⁸ Take heed to yourselves, that you may not destroy those things which you have wrought, but may receive a full reward. ⁹ Every one going forth, and not abiding in the teaching of Christ, has not God; the one abiding in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine; do not receive him into your house, and do not bid him God speed: ¹¹ for the one bidding him God speed partakes of his evil deeds.