46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

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

Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, Am I not joking?

But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.

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

Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

You shall not raise a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice.

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

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

Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you! For so their fathers did to the false prophets.

Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and a breather of lies shall not escape.

And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water;

Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you, and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but they have seen false oracles and seductions for you.

And it shall be when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him then, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science,

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

And the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battle, or shall I hold back? And they said, Go up! For Jehovah shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

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

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah. But I hate him, for he does not prophesy 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, indeed, the one coming proclaims another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive another spirit, which you did not receive, or another gospel, which you never accepted, you might well endure these .

If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

And when they lacked wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no wine.

And this is a second thing you have done, covering the altar of Jehovah with tears, weeping, and groaning, yet not facing toward the food offering, and taking it with delight from your hand.

Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against his brother, and who judges his brother, speaks 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 as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

and the sign or the wonder which he foretold to you occurs, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them,

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.