17 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which ye learned; and turn away from them.

What then? save that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

And then will many be caused to stumble, and will deliver up one another, and hate one another;

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

"Woe to you when all men speak well of you; for in this same manner were their fathers wont to do to the false prophets.

O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge;

and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

Let love be without hypocrisy; abhorring that which is evil; cleaving to that which is good;

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

For, if he that comes preaches another Jesus, Whom we did not preach; or, if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different Gospel, which ye did not accept; well do ye bear with him.

And, wine having fallen short, the mother of Jesus says to Him, "They have no wine."

Speak not one against another, brethren. 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 ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: verily I say to you, they have their reward.

They profess to know God; but by their works they deny Him; being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work worthless.