¹¹ And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.

¹⁵ Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

⁵ For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

¹ But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

²² Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹ My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.