25 Bible Verses about Bad Company

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good morals.

He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites. I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.read more.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

Whosoever keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shames his father.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness? And what harmony has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not therefore partakers with them.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received from us.

Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure.

Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.

Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy behavior of the wicked:

I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you can not bear them who are evil: and you have tried them who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.