Bible Verses About False Prophets

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.

They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

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 will 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 have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.