DOCTRINES

Passages on this topic · 115

• Matthew 5:19

  Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 15:9

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

• Matthew 15:13

  But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

• John 7:16

  Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

• John 7:17

  If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

• Acts 15:6

  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

• Acts 15:7

  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 15:9

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Acts 15:10

  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

• Acts 15:11

  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

• Acts 15:12

  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

• Acts 15:13

  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

• Acts 15:15

  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Acts 15:18

  All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’

• Acts 15:19

  “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Romans 16:17

  Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

• Romans 16:18

  For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• 1 Corinthians 3:1

  Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 3:2

  I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

• 1 Corinthians 3:4

  For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

• 1 Corinthians 3:11

  For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 3:21

  Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

• 1 Corinthians 11:18

  For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

• 1 Corinthians 11:19

  For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

• 2 Corinthians 2:17

  For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 11:4

  For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

• Galatians 1:6

  I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

• Galatians 1:7

  and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

• Galatians 1:8

  But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

• Ephesians 4:14

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• Colossians 2:4

  Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

• Colossians 2:8

  Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

• Colossians 2:18

  Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

• Colossians 2:19

  and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

• Colossians 2:20

  If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

• Colossians 2:21

  “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

• Colossians 2:22

  (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

• Colossians 2:23

  Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

• 1 Timothy 1:3

  As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

• 1 Timothy 1:4

  and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —

• 1 Timothy 1:6

  from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

• 1 Timothy 1:7

  desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

• 1 Timothy 1:19

  holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

• 1 Timothy 4:1

  But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

• 1 Timothy 4:2

  through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 1 Timothy 4:7

  But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

• 1 Timothy 6:3

  If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

• 1 Timothy 6:4

  he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;

• 1 Timothy 6:21

  which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

• 2 Timothy 2:14

  Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

• 2 Timothy 2:16

  But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

• 2 Timothy 2:17

  and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

• 2 Timothy 2:18

  men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

• 2 Timothy 3:6

  For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

• 2 Timothy 3:7

  always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

• 2 Timothy 3:9

  But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

• 2 Timothy 3:13

  But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

• 2 Timothy 4:3

  For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

• Titus 1:10

  For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

• Titus 1:11

  whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

• Titus 1:14

  not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

• Titus 3:10

  Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

• Titus 3:11

  knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

• 2 Peter 2:1

  But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

• 2 Peter 2:2

  Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

• 2 Peter 2:3

  In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

• 2 Peter 2:4

  For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

• 2 Peter 2:5

  and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

• 2 Peter 2:6

  and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

• 2 Peter 2:7

  and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

• 2 Peter 2:8

  (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

• 2 Peter 2:9

  the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

• 2 Peter 2:10

  but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

• 2 Peter 2:11

  whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

• 2 Peter 2:12

  But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

• 2 Peter 2:13

  receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• 2 Peter 2:15

  forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

• 2 Peter 2:16

  but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

• 2 Peter 2:17

  These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

• 2 Peter 2:19

  promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

• 2 Peter 2:21

  For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

• 2 Peter 2:22

  But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

• 1 John 4:3

  and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

• 2 John 1:4

  I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

• 2 John 1:5

  Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

• 2 John 1:6

  This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

• 2 John 1:7

  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

• 2 John 1:8

  Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

• 2 John 1:9

  Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

• 2 John 1:10

  If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

• 2 John 1:11

  for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.