46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

Better is open protest than love kept secret.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.

And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:

Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, A word of weight from the Lord! I will send punishment on that man and on his house.

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.

And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.

O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.

If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.

When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship;

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.