“ Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.

“你们要防备假先知。他们到你们这里来，外面披着羊皮，里面却是残暴的狼。

“你们要防备假先知。他们到你们这里来，外面披着羊皮，里面却是残暴的狼。

“你们要防备假先知。他们到你们这里来，外面披着羊皮，里面却是残暴的狼。

“你们要提防假先知，他们披着羊皮到你们当中，骨子里却是凶残的狼。

“提防假先知！他们披着羊皮到你们当中，里面却是残暴的狼。

“你们要提防假先知。他们披着羊皮来到你们这里，里面却是凶残的狼。

「你們要防備假先知。他們到你們這裏來，外面披着羊皮，裏面卻是殘暴的狼。

「你們要防備假先知。他們到你們這裏來，外面披着羊皮，裏面卻是殘暴的狼。

「你們要防備假先知。他們到你們這裏來，外面披着羊皮，裏面卻是殘暴的狼。

「你們要提防假先知，他們披著羊皮到你們當中，骨子裡卻是凶殘的狼。

“提防假先知！他們披著羊皮到你們當中，裡面卻是殘暴的狼。

『你們要注意提防假的神言人；那種人到你們這裏來，打扮得像羊，裏面卻是勒索的狼。

「你們要提防假先知。他們披著羊皮來到你們這裡，裡面卻是凶殘的狼。

謹防偽先知、其就爾也、外飾若羊、內則貪狼、

謹防偽師、其就爾、外如羔羊、內實豺狼、

謹防偽先知、其就爾、外似羊、內實豺狼、

有現於爾前者、外披羊皮、內實貪狼、冒作先知、不可不防也。

“ Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

“ Watch out for false prophets. They come to you pretending to be sheep. But on the inside they are hungry wolves.

“ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

“ Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.

“ Be on your guard against false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravaging wolves.

“ Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

“ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

“ Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

“ Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.And you must watch! I have told you everything in advance.

“ If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says,‘ Let us follow other gods,’ which you have not known,‘ and let us worship them,’do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.So it is no great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destiny will be according to their works.

Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”

Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the false prophets.

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard, so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability.

For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

This is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim peace when they have food to sink their teeth into but declare war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths.Therefore, it will be night for you— without visions; it will grow dark for you— without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners disappointed. They will all cover their mouths because there will be no answer from God.

But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

“ Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb, but he sounded like a dragon.He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.He also performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in front of people.He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived.He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.And he requires everyone— small and great, rich and poor, free and slave— to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name.

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause dissensions and obstacles contrary to the doctrine you have learned. Avoid them,for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

But the Lord said to me,“ These prophets are prophesying a lie in My name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.“ Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who say,‘ There will never be sword or famine in this land.’ By sword and famine these prophets will meet their end.The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them— they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”

Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgusting: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom to Me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets: I am about to feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.This is what the Lord of Hosts says:“ Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are making you worthless. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth.

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.But they will not make further progress, for their lack of understanding will be clear to all, as theirs was also.

He also said in His teaching,“ Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes, and who want greetings in the marketplaces,the front seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”

Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you,‘ Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to Ahab son of Kolaiah and to Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in My name:“ I am about to hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

Then Jesus told them,“ Watch out and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

This issue arose because of false brothers smuggled in, who came in secretly to spy on the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

Watch out for“ dogs,” watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.

False messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.Take note: I have told you in advance.

Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.

The princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for the morning.Her prophets are reckless— treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.

The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.

So beware that what is said in the prophets does not happen to you:

Then Jesus replied to them:“ Watch out that no one deceives you.For many will come in My name, saying,‘ I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people, nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to My people”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.”

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

He then told them,“ Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

The head is the elder, the honored one; the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

Then I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming from the dragon’s mouth, from the beast’s mouth, and from the mouth of the false prophet.

On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah,“ Listen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, but you have led these people to trust in a lie.Therefore, this is what the Lord says:‘ I am about to send you off the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”And the prophet Hananiah died that year in the seventh month.

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.

Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep.These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own gain.

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies, even though I have not caused him grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil way to save his life,