Discussed amongst Fellow Servants of Christ

Since January 2003

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1. Christian Anti-Christs: What Are They Called?
2. Christian Anti-Christs: What Do They Do?
3. Christian Anti-Christs: What Must We Do?
4. Christian Anti-Christs: What Will Jesus Do?

-- "that man of sin...the son of perdition...the mystery of iniquity...that Wicked...Satan..." (II Thessalonians 2:3, 7-9)

-- "every spirit...the spirits...that spirit of antichrist...the spirit of error." (I John 4:1, 3, 6)

-- "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." (Revelation 16:13-14)

-- "his [Satan's] ministers..." (II Corinthians 11:15)

-- "false Christs..." (Matthew 24:24)

-- "antichrist...many antichrists..." (I John 2:18, 22, II John 1:7)

-- "For such are false apostles..." (II Corinthians 11:13)

-- "false prophets..." (Matthew 7:15, 24:11, 24, II Peter 2:1, I John 4:1)

-- "the false prophet." (Revelation 16:13, 19:20, 20:10)

-- "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers..." (Matthew 23:33)

-- "the dragon..." (Revelation 16:13-14)

-- "ravening wolves." (Matthew 7:15)

-- "wolves..." (Matthew 10:16)

-- "wolf..." (John 10:12)

-- "grievous wolves" (Acts 20:29)

-- "evil beasts..." (Titus 1:12)

-- "Pharisees..." (Matthew 23:2, 13-15, 23, 25, 27, 29)

-- "blind Pharisee..." (Matthew 23:26)

-- "scribes..." (Matthew 23:2, 13-15, 23, 25, 27, 29, Luke 20:46)

-- "false teachers..." (II Peter 2:1)

-- "Rabbi..." (Matthew 23:7)

-- "many..., specially they of the circumcision..." (Titus 1:10)

-- "they say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." (Revelation 2:9)

-- "they of the synagogue of Satan…say they are Jews, and are not" (Revelation 3:9)

-- "The Cretians..." (Titus 1:12)

-- "But he...is an hireling, and not the shepherd...he is an hireling..." (John 10:12-13)

-- "hypocrites!" (Matthew 23:13-15, 23, 25, 27, 29)

-- "blind guides..." (Matthew 23:15)

-- "blind..." (Matthew 23:17)

-- "fools..." (Matthew 23:17)

-- "For such are...deceitful workers..." (II Corinthians 11:13)

-- "many deceivers...a deceiver..." (II John 1:7, Titus 1:10)

-- "seducers..." (II Timothy 3:13)

-- "liars..." (Titus 1:10, 12)

-- "many unruly and vain talkers..." (Titus 1:10, 12)

-- "These are murmurers, complainers, ...mockers..." (Jude 16, 18)

-- "filthy dreamers..." (Jude 8)

-- "slow bellies." (Titus 1:12)

-- "men..." (Matthew 10:18, Ephesians 4:14)

-- "man...any man..." (Matthew 24:4, 23, Ephesians 5:6-7, II Thessalonians 2:3)

-- "certain men" (Jude 4)

-- "them that perish..." (II Thessalonians 2:10)

-- "evil men..." (II Timothy 3:13)

-- "false brethren..." (II Corinthians 11:26, Galatians 2:3-5)

-- "if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner..." (I Corinthians 5:11)

-- "Hymenaeus and Alexander..." (I Timothy 1:20)

-- "But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not..." (John 10:12)

-- "... they were not of us...they were not all of us..." (I John 2:19)

-- "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." (I John 4:5)

-- "[F]alse prophets...come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." (Matthew 7:15)

-- "[False prophets] gather...thorns, ...thistles... [are] corrupt...bringeth forth evil fruit... cannot...bring forth good fruit. ...Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthew 7:16-20)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. ...ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." (Matthew 23:25, 27-28)

-- "[They] had pleasure in unrighteousness." (II Thessalonians 2:12)

-- "[They] are...evil beasts, slow bellies. ...unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." (Titus 1:12, 15-16)

-- "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. ...they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ...These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. ...mockers in the last time...walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit." (Jude 8, 11-12, 16, 18-19)

-- "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world..." (Revelation 16:13-14)

-- "[False prophets]...prophes[y] in [Jesus'] name...and in [His] name...cast out devils...and in [His] name [have] done many wonderful works..." (Matthew 7:21-22)

-- "[F]alse Christs, and false prophets...shall shew great signs and wonders..." (Matthew 24:24)

-- "[T]he working of Satan [is] with all power and signs and lying wonders..." (II Thessalonians 2:9)

-- "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles..." (Revelation 16:14)

-- "[T]he false prophet...wrought miracles before him [the beast]..." (Revelation 19:20)

-- "[They will be s]peaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron..." (I Timothy 4:2)

-- "[They] are alway liars...giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." (Titus 1:12, 14)

-- "they of the synagogue of Satan…say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie…" (Revelation 3:9)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...for a pretence make long prayer..." (Matthew 23:14)

-- "For many...shall deceive many. ...And many false prophets...shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:5, 11)

-- "[B]y good words and fair speeches [they] deceive the hearts of the simple." (Romans 16:18)

-- "[I]f it were possible, they [false Christs and false prophets] shall deceive the very elect." (Matthew 24:24)

-- "[W]ith every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, ...they lie in wait to deceive..." (Ephesians 4:14)

-- "[T]he working of Satan [is] with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (II Thessalonians 2:9-10)

-- "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving..." (II Timothy 3:13)

-- "[T]heir mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage." (Jude 16)

-- "that great city Babylon...by thy sorceries were all nations deceived." (Revelation 18:21, 23)

-- "[T]he false prophet...wrought miracles before him [the beast], with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image." (Revelation 19:20)

-- "[T]he dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan...deceive the nations... And when the thousand years are expired, Satan...shall go out to deceive the nations... And the devil that deceived them..." (Revelation 20:2-3, 7-8, 10)

-- "[T]he scribes...desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers..." (Luke 20:46-47)

-- "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." (Matthew 23:5-7)

-- "[They] serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly..." (Romans 16:17-18)

-- "[They] subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake." (Titus 1:11)

-- "[B]road is the [false prophets'] way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat" (Matthew 7:13)

-- "And many false prophets shall rise... For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets..." (Matthew 24:11, 24)

-- "many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers..." (Titus 1:10)

-- "And many shall follow their pernicious ways..." (II Peter 2:2)

-- "...even now are there many antichrists..." (I John 2:18)

-- "many false prophets are gone out into the world." (I John 4:1)

-- "For many deceivers are entered into the world..." (II John 1:7)

-- "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse..." (II Timothy 3:12-13)

-- "They profess that they know God..." (Titus 1:16)

-- "[False prophets call Jesus Christ], Lord, Lord..." (Matthew 7:21)

-- "But there were false prophets...even as there shall be false teachers...who...shall...even [be] denying the Lord that bought them..." (II Peter 2:1)

-- "...no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father..." (I John 2:21-23)

-- "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." (I John 4:3)

-- "For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. ...Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son." (II John 1:7, 9)

-- "[C]ertain men [are] turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." (Jude 4)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." (Matthew 23:23)

-- "Also of your own selves [the elders of the church] shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." (Acts 20:30)

-- "[Their teachings run] contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned..." (Romans 16:17)

-- "[T]hey received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ...they...believe a lie...believed not the truth..." (II Thessalonians 2:10-12)

-- "[They went on] teaching things which they ought not...giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." (Titus 1:11, 14)

-- "For many shall come in [Jesus'] name, saying, I am Christ; ...[and] shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there... For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets..." (Matthew 24:5, 23-24)

-- "[T]hat man of sin...the son of perdition...opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God...." (II Thessalonians 2:3-4)

-- "[T]hese filthy dreamers...despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves." (Jude 8-10)

-- "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." (Revelation 16:13-14)

-- "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat..." (Matthew 23:2)

-- "Also of your own selves [the elders of the church] shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." (Acts 20:30)

-- "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you..." (II Peter 2:1)

-- "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." (I John 2:19)

-- "[S]ome having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander..." (I Timothy 1:19-20)

-- "[I]n the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils..." (I Timothy 4:1)

-- "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (II Timothy 3:13)

-- "I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." (Revelation 2:9)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." (Matthew 23:15)

-- "For I know this, that after my [Paul's] departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." (Acts 20:29-30)

-- "[F]alse brethren unawares brought in...came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus..." (Galatians 2:4)

-- "[They] subvert whole houses..." (Titus 1:11)

-- "But there were false prophets...even as there shall be false teachers...who privily shall bring in damnable heresies..." (II Peter 2:1)

-- "For there are certain men crept in unawares... These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots..." (Jude 4, 12)

-- "For such are...transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness..." (II Corinthians 11:13-15)

-- "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." (II Peter 2:2)

-- "...he that is not of God heareth not us." (I John 4:6)

-- "[T]he scribes...love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; [and] devour widows' houses..." (Luke 20:46-47)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...devour widows' houses..." (Matthew 23:14)

-- "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you..." (II Peter 2:3)

-- "[T]hey...ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward..." (Jude 11)

-- "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. ...[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." (Matthew 23:4, 13)

-- "But...Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage..." (Galatians 2:3-4)

-- "[They will be f]orbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." (I Timothy 4:3)

-- "[They] cause divisions and offences..." (Romans 16:17)

-- "But he that is an hireling...seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth... The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep." (John 10:12-13)

-- "[These] wolves...men...will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; and ye shall be brought before governors and kings..." (Matthew 10:17-18)

--- "[Y]e are the children of them which killed the prophets." (Matthew 23:31)

-- "[T]he wolf com[es to] the sheep...and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep." (John 10:12)

-- "For I know this, that after my [Paul's] departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock." (Acts 20:20)

-- "I have been...in perils among false brethren..." (II Corinthians 11:25-26)

-- "I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. …behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days" (Revelation 2:9-10)

-- "[In] that great city Babylon...in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." (Revelation 18:21, 24)

-- "Beware of false prophets..." (Matthew 7:15)

-- "But beware of [these] men..." (Matthew 10:17)

-- "Beware of the scribes..." (Luke 20:46)

-- "Take heed that no man deceive you. ...Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not." (Matthew 24:4, 23)

-- "[Let's] henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive..." (Ephesians 4:14)

-- "Let no man deceive you with vain words..." (Ephesians 5:6)

-- "Let no man deceive you by any means... Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." (II Thessalonians 2:3, 15)

-- "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." (I John 4:1-6)

-- "Take heed therefore unto yourselves [elders of the church], and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood." (Acts 20:28)

-- "Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." (II John 1:8)

-- "And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death." (Revelation 2:8-11)

-- "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." (Revelation 3:7-13)

-- "Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." (Titus 1:13-14)

-- "And of some have compassion, making a difference: and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." (Jude 22-23)

-- "All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. ...But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ." (Matthew 23:3, 8-10)

-- "Be not ye therefore partakers with them." (Ephesians 5:7)

-- "To [false brethren] we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour..." (Galatians 2:5)

-- "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." (Romans 16:17)

-- "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. ...Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." (I Corinthians 5:11, 13)

-- "[S]ome having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." (I Timothy 1:19-20)

-- "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." (II John 1:9-11)

-- "Wherefore, behold, I send unto [them] prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them [they] shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall [they] scourge in [their] synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:" (Matthew 23:34)

-- "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare..." (I Timothy 1:18)

-- "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (Jude 3)

-- "[A]s sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." (Matthew 10:16)

-- "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; holding faith, and a good conscience..." (I Timothy 1:18-19)

-- "For what have I to do to judge them also that are without [outside God's kingdom]? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth." (I Corinthians 5:12-13)

-- "[Jesus Christ] send[s us] forth...in the midst of wolves...for [His] sake, for a testimony against them..." (Matthew 10:16-18)

-- "[Their] mouths must be stopped..." (Titus 1:11)

-- "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." (I Corinthians 5:4-5)

-- "[S]ome having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." (I Timothy 1:19-20)

-- "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." (I John 4:4)

-- [T]he working of Satan [is] with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (II Thessalonians 2:9-12)

-- "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." (Revelation 3:9)

-- "Every [false prophet] is hewn down, and cast into the fire. ...Many [false prophets] will say to [Jesus Christ] in that day [of judgment], Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will [Jesus] profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew 7:19, 22-23)

-- "[Y]ou, scribes and Pharisees, ...shall receive the greater damnation. ...Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." (Matthew 23:14, 32-35)

-- "[T]he same shall receive greater damnation." (Luke 20:47)

-- "Therefore it is no great thing if his [Satan's] ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." (II Corinthians 11:15)

-- "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." (Ephesians 5:6)

-- "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he [God] who now letteth will let, until he [the man of sin, the son of perdition] be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (II Thessalonians 2:7-12)

-- "But there were false prophets...even as there shall be false teachers...who...shall...bring upon themselves swift destruction...whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." (II Peter 2:1, 3)

-- "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation... I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. ...Woe unto them! ...to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 4-6, 11, 13, 15)

-- "And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it [the city] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." (Revelation 18:21-24)

-- "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." (Revelation 19:19-20)

-- "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. ...And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them [the saints] was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20: 2-3, 7-10)