What Does the Bible Say About Letting False Witness In?

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

7 Bible Verses about Letting False Witness In

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Matthew 7:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes