67 Bible Verses about Evil Associations

As dawn was breaking, the angels pressured Lot. "Get going!" they told him. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be engulfed by the devastation that's coming to this city."

I'll never join their council; I'll never enter their assembly. In their anger they committed murder and lamed cattle just for fun.

You are not to follow the majority in doing wrong, and you are not to testify in a lawsuit so as to follow the majority and pervert justice.

So when the LORD your God delivers them to you and you have defeated them, then utterly destroy them. You are not to make any covenant with them nor be gracious to them. You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons, because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the LORD's anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire.

Stand very strong, then, so you can obey and carry out everything written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning neither to the right nor to the left of it. That way, you will not mingle with those nations that remain among you, nor mention the name of their gods, nor make oaths by them, nor serve them, nor worship them. Instead, you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done today, read more.
because the LORD has expelled great and strong nations ahead of you. Now as for you, not a single man has been able to oppose you right to this day. A single man makes a thousand flee, because the LORD your God is the one who is fighting for you, just as he promised you. "So be very diligent to love the LORD your God, because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

You are not to do what you used to do in the land of Egypt where you lived. You are not to do what Canaan does, where I'm about to bring you, so that you live according to their statutes.

You are not to live by the customs of the nations, whom I've cast away right in front of you. Because they did all of these things, I detested them.

Then he told the community, "Move away from the camps of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. That way you won't be destroyed along with all their sins."

But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.

Some time later, the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and announced to Israel, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land that I promised to your ancestors. I had told them, "I'll never breach my covenant with you. As for you, you must not make any treaties with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, tear down their altars.' But you haven't obeyed me. What have you done? Therefore I'm now saying, "I won't expel them before you. Instead, they'll remain at your side, and their gods will ensnare you.'"

after they have been destroyed in your sight, be careful not to be ensnared as they were. Otherwise, you will seek their gods and ask yourselves, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

But ungodly men are like thorns that are discarded because they cannot be safely handled.

should we violate your commandments by intermarrying with the nations who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you had consumed us, with not even a remnant surviving to escape?

How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers.

Get away from me, all of you who practice evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

The one who despises those who are utterly wicked, but who honors the one who fears the LORD, who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not change,

I do not sit with those committed to what is false, nor do I travel with hypocrites.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who practice iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while harboring evil in their hearts.

I despise those who trust vain idols; but I have trusted in the LORD.

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers.

for a day in your Temple courts is better than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather stand at the entrance of God's house than live in the tent of wickedness.

I will not allow anyone with a perverted mind in my presence; I will not be involved with anything evil.

They never destroyed the people, as the LORD had commanded them.

Leave me, you who practice evil, that I may observe the commands of my God.

How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar! I have resided too long with those who hate peace. I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they are in favor of war. A Song of Ascents

God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,

Don't let my heart turn toward evil or involve itself in wicked activities with men who practice iniquity. Let me not feast on their delicacies.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,

Do not enter the path of the wicked, or go along the way of evil men.

Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house,

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

Whoever tills his soil will have a lot to eat, but anyone who pursues fantasies lacks sense.

Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you will not find competent advice.

A violent man entices his companion and leads him on a path that is not good.

It's better to meet a mother bear who has lost her cubs than a fool in his stupidity.

Whoever spreads gossip betrays confidences; so don't get involved with someone who talks too much.

Thorns and snares lie in the path of the perverse person, but whoever is cautious stays far away from them.

Don't consume food provided by a miserly person, and don't desire his delicacies,

Don't be envious of wicked men or wish you were with them,

Whoever keeps the Law is a discerning son, but whoever keeps company with gluttons brings shame to his father.

As the wicked grow powerful, transgression increases, but the righteous will observe their downfall.

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. All of them are lovers of bribes and are runners after gifts. They don't bring justice to orphans, and the widow's case never comes up for review in their court."

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

For this is what the LORD spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living:

"Don't run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you say, "It's hopeless! Because I love foreign gods, I'll go after them!'"

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

I didn't sit in the company of those who have fun, and I didn't rejoice. Because of your hand on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.

Flee from Babylon, and each of you, escape with your life! Don't be destroyed because of her guilt, for it's time for the LORD's vengeance. He is paying back what is due to her.

Ephraim has become entwined with idols; leave him alone!

"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.

You keep Omri's statutes and observe the customs of the house of Ahab. Because you live according to their advice, I'll make you desolate and turn your inhabitants into an object of scorn. Therefore you will bear the shame of my people."

and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will grow cold.

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,

Your boasting is not good. You know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough, don't you?

Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."

Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?

Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

Do not ordain anyone hastily. Do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.

traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you don't participate in her sins and also suffer from her diseases.