Matt 7:15,16

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matt 24:11

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Matt 24:24

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Mark 13:22

For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Acts 13:6-12

And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

II Pet 2:1,2

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

I John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Rev 16:13,14

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.

Rev 19:20,21

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. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Rev 20:10

And the devil that deceived them 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.

S&H 567:27

The beast and the false prophets are lust and hypocrisy. These wolves in sheep's clothing are detected and killed by innocence, the Lamb of Love.

Pul 7:19

An unjust, unmerciful, and oppressive priesthood must perish, for false prophets in the present as in the past stumble onward to their doom; while their tabernacles crumble with dry rot. "God is not mocked," and "the word of the Lord endureth forever."

53.81 pseudoprophetes

One who claims to be a prophet and is not and thus proclaims what is false -- 'false prophet'... 'Many false prophets will appear and fool many people' Mt 24:11.

False Prophets

False prophets obviously cause a good deal of trouble. Didache 11.8ff. shows that they are marked by inconsistency of teaching and conduct. Hermas offers moral criteria by which to unmask them (Mandates 11.2-3, 12-13). They are bold, ambitious, talkative, etc., offer consultations like soothsayers, take fees, and tell people what they want to hear. The Montanist prophets are regarded as false prophets on the grounds that they produce no miracles, that their prediction of the coming of the new Jerusalem at Pepuza is false, that they prophesy in ecstatic trances, that they accept gifts and adopt an unseemly mode of life, and that Jesus himself said that there would be no more prophets after John. There may be little basis for many of the criticisms, for Tertullian respects the Montanists, they live ascetically, it is generally agreed that they are doctrinally orthodox, and ecstasy is not rejected by the church in principle. With the defeat of Montanism the institutional ministry gains a decisive victory over prophecy.