1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

Cross References (50)

  • 2 Timothy 3:1–9 (46)

    But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

  • 2 Peter 2:1 (37)

    Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly

  • 2 Corinthians 11:13–15 (28)

    For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

  • Jude 1:18 (27)

    when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12 (24)

    Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of

  • 2 Peter 3:3 (21)

    Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil de

  • Jude 1:4 (17)

    For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn

  • 2 Corinthians 11:3 (16)

    I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your sim

  • 2 Timothy 3:13 (14)

    while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  • 1 John 4:6 (12)

    We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the

  • 2 Timothy 4:4 (11)

    So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

  • 1 John 2:18 (10)

    Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have ap

  • Revelation 2:11 (8)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the se

  • John 16:13 (8)

    However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will

  • Daniel 10:14 (7)

    Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days

  • Daniel 11:35–38 (7)

    Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it wi

  • Matthew 24:5–12 (7)

    For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

  • Revelation 2:29 (6)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • 1 Corinthians 8:5–6 (6)

    For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

  • Ezekiel 38:16 (6)

    You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that

  • 1 Peter 1:20 (5)

    He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

  • 1 Kings 22:22–23 (5)

    And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and

  • Revelation 20:10 (5)

    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prop

  • Deuteronomy 32:29 (4)

    If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

  • Colossians 2:18 (4)

    Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he

  • Revelation 3:6 (4)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • 2 Chronicles 18:19–22 (4)

    And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this,

  • Isaiah 2:2 (4)

    In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be rai

  • Numbers 24:14 (4)

    Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.

  • Micah 4:1 (4)

    In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be rai

  • Genesis 3:3–5 (4)

    but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you w

  • Revelation 18:2 (4)

    And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt f

  • Deuteronomy 4:30 (4)

    When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your

  • Revelation 20:8 (3)

    and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their

  • 1 Corinthians 10:20 (3)

    No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons

  • Genesis 3:13 (3)

    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

  • Revelation 19:20 (3)

    But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had t

  • Revelation 9:2–11 (3)

    The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the ai

  • Revelation 18:23 (3)

    The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you a

  • Revelation 9:20 (3)

    Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did

  • Jeremiah 48:47 (3)

    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

  • Jeremiah 49:39 (3)

    “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.

  • Hosea 3:5 (2)

    Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling t

  • Revelation 2:7 (2)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right t

  • Revelation 20:2–3 (2)

    He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

  • Revelation 2:17 (2)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden m

  • 1 Corinthians 12:11 (2)

    All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.

  • Revelation 13:14 (2)

    Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, tel

  • Acts 28:25 (2)

    They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right

  • Revelation 3:13 (2)

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.