46 Bible Verses about Fake Friends

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, 'Am not I playing?'

And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Better is open reproof than hidden love.

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Come ye, I take wine, And we drink, quaff strong drink, And as this day hath been to-morrow, Great -- exceeding abundant!'

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed -- and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, Is the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

And the prophet, and the priest, and the people, That saith, The burden of Jehovah, I have seen after that man, and after his house.

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.

Thy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity, To turn back thy captivity, And they see for thee false burdens and causes of expulsion.

And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, 'Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying.

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, 'Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, 'Go up, and the Lord doth give it into the hand of the king.'

Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'

'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing it,

Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver.

and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, 'Wine they have not;'

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

and the sign and the wonder hath come which he hath spoken of unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not known), and serve them,

And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.