15 Bible Verses about Bad Friends

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can 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; for he hath not another to help him up.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

And as ye would 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.

Make no friendship 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 when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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 an one no not to eat.

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