bad friends
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33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
28A perverse man stirs up lawsuits. And one who is verbose divides leaders.
30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body go into Hell.
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.
20Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.
17Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.
7Go against a foolish man, and he does not acknowledge lips of prudence.
8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
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.
17Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him?
26He who ignores a loss for the sake of a friend is just. But the way of the impious will deceive them.
7Little sons, let no one deceive you. Whoever does justice is just, even as he also is just. 8Whoever commits sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this reason, the Son of God appeared, so that he might eradicate the works of the devil.
24A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.
9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty. 10Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction, 11knowing that one who is like this has been subverted, and that he offends; for he has been condemned by his own judgment.