15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

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, and doesn't have another to lift him up.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger: lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.