For such people don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. By their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Beloved, y’all must not believe every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to determine whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and leads my slaves astray to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols.
For certain humans crept in secretly, those whose condemnation was written about long ago. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antiChrist.
For the time will come when people won’t put up with sound doctrine, but instead they will accumulate teachers who tickle their ears with what they desire.
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who snuck in to spy on our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus so that they might bring us into bondage.
“In his place a contemptible person will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom; but he will come in time of security, and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.