Don't
Be Deceived!
"As you
have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted
and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware
lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the
tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world,
and not according to Christ." Colossians
2:6-8
"Preach the word!
Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 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.
But you be watchful in all things..." 2
Timothy 4:2-5
"Beloved, do not believe
every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God...."
1 John 4:1
"Woe to
those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness....
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
Isaiah 5:20-21
"...in
latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to
deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons...."
1 Timothy 4:1
"Do not be
deceived: 'Evil company corrupts good habits.' Awake to righteousness, and do not
sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame."
1 Corinthians 15:33
"You love evil more
than good...."
Psalm 52:3
"They are deeply
corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah....
They became an abomination like the thing they loved."
Hosea 9:9-10
"They refuse to
return.
I listened and heard, but they do not speak aright.
No man repented of his wickedness, saying, ‘What have I
done?’
Everyone turned to his own course, as the horse rushes into the
battle.
Even the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow observe the time of
their coming.
But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood."
Jeremiah 8:5-8
"...whom we preach,
warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we
may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus."
Colossians 1:28
"The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know
it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man
according to his ways...."
Jeremiah
17:9-10
"My people have
committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living
waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no
water."
Jeremiah 2:13
"...to the wicked God
says: 'What right
have you to declare My statutes or take My covenant in your mouth, seeing you hate instruction
and cast My words behind you? ... You thought that I was
altogether like you; but I will rebuke you....'" Psalm
50:16-21
"...you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hand. Yet
you have
forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore I will deliver you no more. Go
and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time
of distress.”
Judges
10:12-14
"For the Lord does
not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7
"You know how to discern
the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times."
Matthew 16:3
"...many false
prophets will rise up
and deceive many."
Matthew
24:11
"And this I pray,
that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge
and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are
excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of
Christ."
Philippians 1:9-10
"Therefore
be wise as serpents and harmless as doves."
Matthew
10:16
"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart
from evil."
Proverbs 3:5-7
See also
Human Nature,
Apostasy, Corruption,
Discernment