5 Bible Verses about Heresy
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Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
For if anybody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive another spirit different from the one you did receive or a glad message different from the one you did accept, you listen to it all right!
I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news, which is not really another one; only there are certain people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of Christ upside down. But even if I or an angel from heaven preach a good news that is contrary to the one which I have already preached to you, a curse upon him!
As we have heard that some of our number have disturbed you by their teaching, by continuing to unsettle your minds,
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Heresy » Teachers of, among early Christians
"I know what you have done; your hard work and patient endurance; that you cannot tolerate wicked persons; that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles although they were not, and have found them to be imposters,
As we have heard that some of our number have disturbed you by their teaching, by continuing to unsettle your minds,
which is not really another one; only there are certain people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of Christ upside down.
For if anybody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive another spirit different from the one you did receive or a glad message different from the one you did accept, you listen to it all right!
they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.
Heresy » The propagation of, forbidden under severe penalties
After one or two warnings to a man who is factious, stop having anything to do with him, for you may be sure that such a man is crooked and sinful, even self-condemned.
If anyone continuously comes to see you without bringing this teaching, you must stop welcoming him to your house and stop bidding him good morning, For whoever keeps on bidding him good morning is sharing in his wicked works.
Heresy » Paul and silas accused of
and brought them to the chiefs of the police court. They said, "These men are Jews; they continue to make great disturbance in our town and to advocate practices which it is against the law for us Romans to accept or observe."
After flogging them severely, they put them into jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch on them.
Heresy » Disavowed by paul
and they cannot prove the charges they have just made against me. But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets, and I have the same hope in God that they cherish for themselves, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked. read more.
So I am always striving to have a conscience that is clear before God and men.
Heresy » Paul accused of
and said, "This fellow is inducing people to worship God in ways that violate our laws."
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Death Penalty For Heresy
Matthew 20:18"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will sentence Him to death,
