Bible verses about "heresy" | Sawyer

⁸ But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed. ⁹ As we said before I now also say again, If any one preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be accursed.

¹² For the word of God is living, and effective, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and reaching even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrows, and distinguishes thoughts and intentions of mind;

⁷ which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ.

²⁴ Since we heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls, to whom we gave no charge,

^{3 (1:2)} Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. ⁴ For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ. ^{5 (1:3)} But I wish to remind you, though you once knew all, that the Lord having saved his people from Egypt, afterwards destroyed those that believed not, ⁶ and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire. ^{8 (1:4)} In like manner also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject government, and blaspheme glories. ⁹ But Michael the arch-angel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a charge of blasphemy, but said, The Lord rebuke you. ¹⁰ But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed into the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the contradiction of Korah. ¹² These are breakers at your love-feasts, feasting with you without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water driven about by winds, autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, ¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming with their own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. ^{14 (1:5)} And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of them, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousand of his saints ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all the deeds of impiety which they have impiously committed, and of all the hard speeches which impious sinners have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.

¹⁵ having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness,

¹⁹ For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹ for he that salutes him is a partaker of his evil works.

⁴ For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

¹⁰ If any one comes to you and brings not this doctrine, receive him not into your houses, and salute him not;

^{1 (1:4)} But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

¹⁰ A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject,

^{1 (2:1)} BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

^{1 (1:4)} But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction; ² and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled, ³ and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment, ⁵ and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly, ⁶ and condemned Sodom and Gomorrah to be overthrown, reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those who should afterwards be wicked, ⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;— ⁸ for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;— ⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished, ¹⁰ but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories, ¹¹ where the angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them a reproachful judgment; ¹² but these, like irrational animals, brutes made to be taken and destroyed, reviling things which they do not understand, will also be destroyed in their depravity, ¹³ receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you, ¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children, ¹⁵ having left the right way they have gone astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Beor who loved the wages of wickedness, ¹⁶ but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet. ^{17 (1:5)} These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness. ¹⁸ For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error, ¹⁹ promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant. ²⁰ For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it is better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, having known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog returned to his vomit, and the swine that was washed to wallowing in filth.