17 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

Brothers, I beg of you to keep your eye on those who stir up dissensions and put hindrances in your way, contrary to the doctrine which you have been taught. Avoid them.

What does it matter? Anyhow, for ulterior ends or honestly, Christ is being proclaimed, and I rejoice over that; yes and I will rejoice over it.

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

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

O Timotheus, keep the securities of the faith intact: avoid the profane jargon and contradictions of what is falsely called 'Knowledge.'

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

You put up with it all right, when some interloper preaches a second Jesus (not the Jesus I preached), or when you are treated to a Spirit different from the Spirit you once received, and to a different gospel from what I gave you! Why not put up with me?

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

[vss

Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.