2Ti 4:3-4, Tit 1:10, Heb 13:9, 2Pe 2:1-14, 3:3, 17, 1Jo 2:18, 4:1 | ESV | STEP | For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching , but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions ,

2 Timothy 4:3-4

3 ^aFor the time is coming when people will not endure ^bsound ^{▼▼Or healthy} teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and ^dwill turn away from listening to the truth and ^ewander off into myths.

Titus 1:10

10 For there are many who are insubordinate, ^fempty talkers and deceivers, especially those of ^gthe circumcision party. ^{▼▼Or especially those of the circumcision}

Hebrews 13:9

9 Do not be ⁱled away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, ^jnot by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

2 Peter 2:1-14

False Prophets and Teachers

1 But ^kfalse prophets also arose among the people, ^ljust as there will be false teachers among you, who will ^msecretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master ⁿwho bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth ^owill be blasphemed. 3 And ^pin their greed they will exploit you ^qwith false words. ^rTheir condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

4 For if God did not spare ^sangels when they sinned, but ^tcast them into hell ^{▼▼Greek Tartarus} and committed them to chains ^{▼▼Some manuscripts pits} of gloomy darkness ^wto be kept until the judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^xpreserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^ya flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 if by ^zturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, ^aamaking them an example of ^abwhat is going to happen to the ungodly; ^{▼▼Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly} 7 and ^adif he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, ^aehe was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9 then ^afthe Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, ^{▼▼Or temptations} and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially ^ahthose who indulge ^{▼▼Greek who go after the flesh} in the lust of defiling passion and ^ajdespise authority.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble ^akas they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 ^alwhereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 ^amBut these, like irrational animals, ^ancreatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 13 suffering wrong as ^aothe wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure ^apto revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts love feasts} while ^arthey feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, ^asinsatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts ^attrained in greed. ^auAccursed children!

2 Peter 3:3

3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come ^avin the last days with scoffing, ^awfollowing their own sinful desires.

2 Peter 3:17

17 You therefore, beloved, ^axknowing this beforehand, ^aytake care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

1 John 2:18

Warning Concerning Antichrists

18 Children, ^azit is the last hour, and as you have heard that ^baantichrist is coming, so now ^bbmany antichrists have come. ^bcTherefore we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 4:1

Test the Spirits

1 Beloved, ^bddo not believe every spirit, but ^betest the spirits to see whether they are from God, for ^bfmany ^bgfalse prophets ^bhhave gone out into the world.