17 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

in journies often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren:

My little children, let us not love in word, or in tongue only, but in deed and in truth.

Beloved, believe not every Spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God: for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned:

What then? yet every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached: and in this I rejoice, yea and I will rejoice;

and then will many take offense, and betray one another, and hate one another: and many false prophets will rise up and deceive many:

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some also through good-will:

Wo unto you when all men speak well of you; for their fathers did the same to the false prophets.

O Timothy, keep that with which thou art entrusted, avoiding profane empty babblings, and the oppositions of science falsely so called:

and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Let love be unfeigned. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good;

And beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

For if he, that cometh to you, preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached; or if ye receive another Spirit which ye have not received, or another gospel which ye have not embraced, ye might indeed bear with him.

And the wine falling short, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, They have no wine.

Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites; for they love to pray in public assemblies, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be taken notice of by men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.