17 Bible Verses about Not With People

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

My son, do not go along with them, and keep your feet away from their paths!

Don't make friends with a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with someone who is easily angered,

Don't associate with heavy drinkers or dine with gluttons,

But Judah reminded him, "The man distinctly warned us: "You'll never see my face unless your brother comes with you.'

But if you don't send him, we're not going, because the man told us, "You'll never see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

But then you told your servants, "Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you won't see my face again.'

"But we told him, "We can't go back there. If our youngest brother accompanies us, we'll go back, but we cannot see the man's face again unless our youngest brother accompanies us.'

After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

Samuel told Saul, "I won't return with you because you have rejected the message from the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."

When he arrived from Jerusalem to greet the king, the king asked him, "So why didn't you come with me, Mephibosheth?"

At this point, all the wicked and worthless men of the group who had gone with David answered, "Because they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil that we recovered, except that each person may take his wife and his children and go."

John said, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

but Paul did not think it was right to take along the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and who had not gone with them into the work.

They left us, but they were not part of us, for if they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. Their leaving made it clear that none of them was really part of us.