choosing your friends carefully
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33Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.
26He who ignores a loss for the sake of a friend is just. But the way of the impious will deceive them.
20Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.
17Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
24A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.
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?
19Do not become involved with him who reveals mysteries, and who walks deceitfully, and who enlarges his lips.
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.
17Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.
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.
17But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.
9Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship. 10If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up.
5An open rebuke is better than hidden love. 6The wounds of a loved one are better than the deceitful kisses of a hateful one.
29A man of iniquity entices his friend, and he leads him along a way that is not good.