46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

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

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

"You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause 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 is open rebuke than hidden love.

a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.

Each one says, 'Come on, I'll get some wine! Let's guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We'll have everything we want!'

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

"Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.

Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will not escape punishment.

I will punish any prophet, priest, or other person who says "The Lord's message is burdensome." I will punish both that person and his whole family.'"

Keep your distance from a false charge -- do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

(Nun) Your prophets saw visions for you that were worthless lies. They failed to expose your sin so as to restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were worthless lies.

Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, 'You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.' Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.

O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called "knowledge."

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

The one who conceals hatred utters lies, and the one who spreads slander is certainly a fool.

So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, "Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" They said, "Attack! The sovereign one will hand it over to the king."

The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

"Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord's will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say such things."

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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

If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well.

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

You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the Lord.

So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.

and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, "Let us follow other gods" -- gods whom you have not previously known -- "and let us serve them."

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.