False Prophets & Money
2 Corinthians 11:14 - And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15 - Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Galatians 2:4 - And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.
2 Timothy 3:5 - Having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
2 Peter 2:19 - While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
Romans 16:18 - For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.
Matthew 24:4 - And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you.
Matthew 24:5 - For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:11 - Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
Matthew 24:24 - For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Luke 6:26 - Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Matthew 10:25 - If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2 - And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
2 Peter 2:3 - By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
2 Peter 2:14 - having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
2 Peter 2:15 - They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaamthe son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Philippians 3:18 - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
Philippians 3:19 - whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who set their mind on earthly things.
Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:13 - No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Timothy 6:10 - For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:5 - useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Jeremiah 14:14 - And the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 6:13 - Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness; And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely.
Jeremiah 6:14 - They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:15 - Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:16 - Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:31 - Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their tongues and say, He says.
Jeremiah 23:32 - Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the Lord, and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:9 - For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:1-2 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying on of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear the word of the Lord!
Ezekiel 13:3 - Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13:6 - They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, 'Thus says the Lord!' But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed.
Ezekiel 13:7 - Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, 'The Lord says,' but I have not spoken.
Ezekiel 13:8 - Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you, says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.
Matthew 24:23 - Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it.
Matthew 24:26 - herefore if they say to you, Look, He is in the desert! do not go out; or Look, He is in the inner rooms! do not believe it.
2 John 1:10-11 - If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
Deuteronomy 18:22 - when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
Jeremiah 29:8 - For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Jeremiah 5:30-31 - An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?
2 Thessalonians 2:10 - and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 - And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.
2 Thessalonians 2:12 - that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Matthew 24:5 - For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:11 - Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
2 Peter 2:2 - And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
Matthew 7:22-23 - Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!
Matthew 24:5 - For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
Matthew 24:11 - Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Philippians 3:18-19 - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame--who set their mind on earthly things.
Ephesians 5:11 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Titus 3:10 - Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition.
Titus 1:10 - For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.
Titus 1:11 - whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
Titus 1:13-14 - This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.
Matthew 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Acts 20:28 - Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
Acts 20:29 - For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
Acts 20:30 - Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
Romans 16:17 - Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 Timothy 3:1 - This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
1 Timothy 3:2 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach
1 Timothy 3:3 - not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous.
1 Timothy 3:4 - one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence.
1 Timothy 3:5 - for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?
Titus 1:7 - For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
Titus 1:8 - but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
Titus 1:9 - holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
Matthew 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 7:16 - You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:17 - Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Luke 3:8 - Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Luke 3:9 - And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Luke 3:10 - So the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke 3:11 - He answered and said to them, He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.
Luke 3:12 - Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?
Luke 3:13 - And he said to them, Collect no more than what is appointed for you.
Luke 3:14 - Likewise the soldiers asked him, saying, And what shall we do? So he said to them, Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.
John 15:1 - I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
John 15:2 - Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:3 - You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:4 - Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
John 15:5 - I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Romans 16:5 - Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia to Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:15 - I urge you, brethren--you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints.
Matthew 23:3 - Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.
- Repent for sins
- Have Faith in Jesus alone
- Renounce the False Church System
- Be baptized in the name of Jesus, if not baptised already
- Start / Attend a House Fellowship
- Preach the Gospel
- Read Bible & Pray daily
- Obey His Commandments
- Feed the Poor
- Exhibit the Fruits of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)