2Ti 3:5-7, 4:3, 1Pe 2:1-3, 1Jo 2:19, 21, 4:5-6, Rev 2:2 | ESV | STEP | having the appearance of godliness , but denying its power . Avoid such people .

2 Timothy 3:5-7

5 having the appearance of godliness, but ^adenying its power. ^bAvoid such people. 6 For among them are ^cthose who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to ^darrive at a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 4:3

3 ^eFor the time is coming when people will not endure ^fsound ^{▼▼Or healthy} teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

1 Peter 2:1-3

A Living Stone and a Holy People

1 ^hSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 ⁱLike newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual ^jmilk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have ^ktasted that the Lord is good.

1 John 2:19

19 ^lThey went out from us, but they were not of us; for ^mif they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ⁿthat it might become plain that they all are not of us.

1 John 2:21

21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

1 John 4:5-6

5 ^oThey are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and ^pthe world listens to them. 6 We are from God. ^qWhoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know ^rthe Spirit of truth and ^sthe spirit of error.

Revelation of John 2:2

2 ^t“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but ^uhave tested those ^vwho call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.