15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?

The two are better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent is easy. Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

And three of the friends of Job hear of all this evil that hath come upon him, and they come in each from his place -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite -- and they are met together to come in to bemoan him, and to comfort him;

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with him, if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.