15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Be not deceived: evil companions corrupt good character.

The righteous causes his neighbour to consider: but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.

When intelligence is lacking, the people shall fall, but in the multitude of counsellors there is salvation.

Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?

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

The scorner sought wisdom and found it not, but wisdom comes easy unto him that understands. Go from the presence of the foolish man when thou dost not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

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

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

Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.

Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, when they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.

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