25 Bible Verses about Bad Company

Be not deceiving yourselves, - evil communications corrupt gentle manners: -

He that walketh with the wise, becometh wise, but, the friend of dullards, becometh foolish.

But, now, I have written unto you not to be mixing yourselves up, - if anyone named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one as this, not so much, as to be eating together,

Get thee from the presence of a man that is a dullard, when thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter; I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;

How happy the man, who hath not walked in the counsel of the lawless, - and, in the way of sinners, hath not stood, and, in the seat of scoffers, hath not sat; But, in the law of Yahweh, is his delight, - and, in his law, doth he talk with himself day and night. So doth he become like a tree planted by streams of waters, - that yieldeth, its fruit, in its season, whose leaf, also doth not wither, and, whatsoever he doeth, prospereth.read more.
Not so, the lawless, - but as chaff which is driven about by the wind:

Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in: Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.

My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent. If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;

Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked: Avoid it, do not pass thereon - turn from it, and depart.

A ruthless man, enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him in a way, not good.

He that keepeth instruction, is a son with discernment, but, a companion of squanderers, bringeth shame to his father.

For strictly observed are the statutes of Omri, and every doing of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels, - to the end I may give thee up to desolation, and her inhabitants to hissing, that, the reproach of peoples, ye may bear.

And, because of lawlessness being brought to the full, the love of the many, will grew cold.

But I beseech you, brethren, to keep an eye upon them who are causing divisions and occasions of stumbling, aside from the teaching which, ye, have learned, - and be turning away from them;

Unseemly, is your boast! Know ye not that, a little leaven, doth leaven, the whole of the lump?

Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?

Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy: Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;

Howbeit, we charge you, brethren, - that, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, ye be withdrawing yourselves from every brother - who, in a disorderly way, doth walk, and not according to the instruction which ye received from us.

Hands, suddenly, upon no one, lay, neither have fellowship with sins of strangers: thyself, keep, chaste: -

incessant quarrellings of men wholly corrupt in their mind and bereft of the truth, - supposing godliness to be, a means of gain!

traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

And, righteous Lot, when getting worn out by the behaviour of them who were impious in wantonness, he rescued -

I know thy works, and thy toil, and endurance, and that thou canst not bear bad men, and thou hast tried them who were affirming themselves to be apostles, and they were not, and hast found them false;

And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying - Come forth, my people, out of her, - that ye may have no fellowship with her sins, and, of her plagues, that ye may not receive;