bad company
What does the Bible say about bad company? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
20Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.
24Do not be willing to be a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man, 25lest perhaps you learn his ways, and take up a stumbling block to your soul.
7Go against a foolish man, and he does not acknowledge lips of prudence.
11But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food.
14Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?
4I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice. 5I have hated the assembly of the malicious; and I will not sit with the impious.
1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence. 2But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night. 3And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper. 4Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.
1Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son. But whoever feeds gluttons brings shame to his father.
11And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.