15 Bible Verses about Associations

I am a friend to all who fear You,
to those who keep Your precepts.

So follow the way of good people,
and keep to the paths of the righteous.

The one who walks with the wise will become wise,
but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

Therefore, do not become their partners.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts.

“Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”

After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”

Then Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.

The one who walks with the wise will become wise,
but a companion of fools will suffer harm.

should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of His disciples too, are you?”

He denied it and said, “I am not!”

Now the slaves and the temple police had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

A discerning son keeps the law,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.

from the nations that the Lord had told the Israelites about, “Do not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn you away from Me to their gods.” Solomon was deeply attached to these women and loved them.