15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

The righteous guideth his neighbour; but the way of the wicked misleadeth them.

A man of many friends will come to ruin but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.

Where no advice is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who shall find?

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and who hath not another to lift him up!

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and there is none for him; but knowledge is easy unto the intelligent. Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

And as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner.

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

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him. And they came each one from his place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to condole with him and to comfort him.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.