46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

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

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

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

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

"You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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

"Keep far from a false charge, and don't 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 for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king."

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

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

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

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."

"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

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

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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 up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods" (which you have not known) "and let us serve them;"

"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.