False Teachers Will Come (2 Peter 2:1) But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. (NKJV)

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher Knowledgeable In Scripture (Mat. 4:6) "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'He shall give His angels charge over you,' and, 'In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.'"

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher Knowledgeable In Scripture (False Teachers Are Likewise) (2 Timothy 3:7-8) always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher Satan is an “Accuser” (Revelation 12:10) …the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher Satan is a Liar: (John 8:44) …he is a liar and the father of it.

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher Satan is Cunning: (Genesis 3:1) Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field…

What False Teachers Are Like Satan: The Original False Teacher An “Angel of Light” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15) And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

What False Teachers Are Like False Teachers: May Be “Godly” (2 Timothy 3:5) having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! …

What False Teachers Are Like False Teachers Want Preeminence Among Others (2 Corinthians 11:12) But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. (NKJV)

What False Teachers Are Like False Teachers Want Preeminence Among Others (2 Peter 2:3) By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words…

What False Teachers Are Like Their Proof and Arguments Are Sometimes Convincing (Matthew 24:24) "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

What False Teachers Are Like False Teachers Sometimes Work in Secrecy (2 Peter 2:1) But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth False Teachers: Tell People What They Want to Hear (2 Corinthians 11:4) For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted--you may well put up with it!

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth False Teachers: They Tell People What They Want to Hear (2 Timothy 4:2-4) 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.

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth False Teachers: Their Submission (Or Lack Thereof) to God’s Word (2 Peter 2:10) and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth False Teachers: Their Submission (Or Lack Thereof) to God’s Word (1 John 2:3-6) Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (NKJV)

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth True/False Teachers: Known By Their Fruits (Matthew 7:15-16) "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? (NKJV)

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth Teachers of truth preach the Word! (2 Peter 2:18) For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. (NKJV)

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth Teachers of truth preach the Word! (2 Timothy 2:15-18) Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.

Discerning False Teachers From Teachers of Truth Teachers of truth preach the Word! (2 Peter 3:16) as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. (NKJV)