17 Bible Verses about Not With People

Do not envy men of evil, and do not desire to be with them.

My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate;

Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}.

Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.'

but {if you will not send} [him], we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother [is] with you.'"

Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.'

then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother [is] with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother [is] with us.'

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."

And it happened [that] as she spoke to Joseph {day after day}, he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her.

But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and he has rejected you from being king over Israel!"

It happened that when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?"

Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them [anything] from the plunder which we recovered, {except} each [man may take] his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"

And John answered [and] said, "Master, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow in company with us."

For this [reason] many of his disciples {drew back} and were not walking with him any longer.

but Paul held the opinion they should not take this one along, who departed from them in Pamphylia and did not accompany them in the work.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.