14 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Where no wise guidance is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding. Go into the presence of a foolish man, and thou shall not perceive the lips of knowledge.

And as ye desire that men would do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man, lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that came upon him, they came each one from his own place--Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite--and they made an appointment together to come t

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers,

But now I write to you not to associate if any man who is called a brother is a fornicator, or a greedy man, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator, not even to eat with such kind.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.