25 Bible Verses about Bad Company

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men. I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord. But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night. He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.read more.
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man: For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.

Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark? And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him. Have no part with such men;

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.