Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Beware, [ Prosechete (G4337 ) de (G1161 ),`But beware'] of false prophets - that is, of teachers coming as authorized expounders of the mind of God and guides to heaven. (See Acts 20:29-30; 2 Peter 2:1-2.)
Which come to you in sheep's clothing - with a bland, gentle, plausible exterior; persuading you that the gate is not strait nor the way narrow, and that to teach so is illiberal and bigoted-precisely what the old prophets did (Ezekiel 13:1-10; Ezekiel 13:22).
But inwardly they are ravening wolves - bent on devouring the flock for their own ends (2 Corinthians 11:2-3; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15).