46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

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

Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;

"You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

"Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

"Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.

And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, 'The burden of the LORD,'I will punish that man and his household.

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.

And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.' And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

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

the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

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

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.

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

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--

and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,'

"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.