8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 2:4 — And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
• 1John 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.
• 1Tim 4:1 — Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
• 2Cor 11:3 — But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• 2Cor 11:11 — Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
• 2Cor 11:13 — For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
• 2John 1:7 — 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.
• 2Thess 2:9 — Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• 2Tim 2:16 — But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
• 2Tim 3:13 — But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
• Acts 20:30 — Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• Eph 4:14 — That we 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;
• Eph 4:14 — That we 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;
• Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Eph 5:6 — Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
• Gal 2:5 — To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
• Gal 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
• Heb 13:9 — Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
• Jas 1:16 — Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• 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.
• Matt 24:4 — And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
• Rev 20:8 — 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.
• Rom 16:18 — For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• Rom 16:18 — For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• Titus 1:10 — For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: