15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.

Where there is no wisdom, the people fall; but in the multitude of wise men there is safety.

Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands. Go from before a foolish man when you do not see in him the lips of knowledge.

And as you desire that men should do to you, you do also to them likewise.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

And Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they each one came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had met together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.

But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.