17 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

My dear children, let us not love in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth;

BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

Now I beseech you, brethren, keep a sharp eye over those who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ye have learned, and turn away from them.

What then? if Christ is preached in whatever manner it be, whether in pretext or reality, even in this do I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:

Wo unto you, when men shall speak well of you! for just so did their fathers of the false prophets.

O Timothy, guard the sacred deposit, avoiding profane trifling talk, and antitheses of misnamed science:

And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.

Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Take heed then of false prophets, who come to you in the garb of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

For if he indeed that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not embraced, ye might well bear with him.

And the wine being exhausted, the mother of Jesus saith to him, They have no more wine.

Traduce not one another, brethren. He that traduceth his brother, and judgeth his brother, traduceth the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but as judge.

And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they love standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets, to pray, that they may make a shew to men. Verily I say unto you, That they have their reward.

They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.