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Want to know what the Bible says about False Preachers? Here are 122 Bible verses about False Preachers from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Timothy 4:3 NIV
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
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Daniel 12:11 NIV
“From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.
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Hosea 4:6 NIV
    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.
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2 Peter 2:3 NIV
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
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Mark 13:22 NIV
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
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1 Timothy 6:3-5 NIV
3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
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Deuteronomy 4:2 NIV
Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
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Deuteronomy 12:32 NIV
See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.
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Acts 1:24 NIV
Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen
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Revelation 12:9 NIV
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
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2 Peter 3:15-18 NIV
15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
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Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NIV
20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
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Ephesians 5:11 NIV
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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2 Corinthians 11:13 NIV
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
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2 Peter 2:2 NIV
Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
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2 Peter 3:17 NIV
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position.
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Matthew 7:21 NIV
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Proverbs 21:2 NIV
A person may think their own ways are right,
    but the Lord weighs the heart.
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Isaiah 8:20 NIV
Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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Acts 20:29 NIV
I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
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