46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends.

The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.

"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.

so [is] a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?"

"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.

[I have been] on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers,

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

" 'You will not {spread} a false report. Do not lift your hand with [the] wicked to be a malicious witness.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

"Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse [with] intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, {very great indeed}."

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

{What is the result?} Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,

And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another,

Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.

Woe whenever all people speak well of you, for their fathers used to do the same [things] to the false prophets.

A bad tooth and a lame foot [is] the trust of a faithless person {in a time} of trouble.

Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.

A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape.

"And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house.

You will stay far from a {false charge}, and do not kill [the] innocent and [the] righteous, because I will not declare [the] wicked righteous.

Your silver has become [as] dross; Your wine [is] diluted with waters.

Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading.

{And then}, if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!" And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,

And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.

Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."

Elders and {the respectable} [are] the head, and prophets who teach lies [are] the tail.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what [is] evil; be attached to what [is] good,

"Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves.

Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "[There is] still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies [anything] good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so."

"You shall not testify against your neighbor [with] a false witness.

For if the one who comes proclaims another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you put up with [it] well [enough]!

{If it is so}, our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us.

And [when the] wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!"

And this you do {as well}: [you] cover the altar of Yahweh [with] tears, [with] weeping and [with] groaning, because he {no longer regards the offering} or accepts [it] [with] favor from your hand.

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge [of the law].

You shall not go [about with] slander among your people; {you shall not endanger your neighbor's life}; I [am] Yahweh.

So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed [in] one day.

and the sign or the wonder comes [about] that he spoke to you, {saying}, 'Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,'

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand [and] pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.