17 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,

My little children, let us not love in word nor tongue, but in work and truth.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;

What then? nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached, and in this I rejoice. But I also will rejoice;

and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;

For some indeed preach Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good will;

Woe, when all men speak well of you! for in this manner did their fathers of the false prophets.

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science,

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves.

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

And the wine falling short the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or 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.

And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. I tell you truly, they have their reward.

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.