11 Bible Verses about Bad Influence

be not deceived : "vicious conversation corrupts good morals."

and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:

for his administration is appointed by God for your good. but if you do wrong, you have reason to be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: he being the minister of God, to execute punishment upon malefactors.

for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

to these things I am equal, thro' Christ who strengthens me.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness, brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

After this Jesus resided in Galilee: for he would not be in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. now the Jews feast of the tabernacles drawing nigh, his relations said to him, retire hence, and go into Judea, that your disciples there may also see the works that you do.read more.
for no body acts in private, that designs to distinguish himself: since you do such things, shew yourself to the world. for even his brethren did not believe in him. but Jesus said to them, my time is not yet come: but any time is equally proper for you. the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil. do you go up to this feast, as for me I do not go with you to it, because my time is not yet accomplished. thus he delivered his mind, and stay'd himself in Galilee. but when his brethren were gone, he went likewise to the feast, not openly, but in secret. during the feast the Jews were in search of him, and said, where can he be? and the people were much divided about him: for some said, he is a good man: others said, not at all; but he seduces the people. However, no body talk'd openly in favour of him, for fear of the Jews.

have you forgot the exhortation which is address'd to you, as to children? "my son, despise not thou the chastning of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. for whom the Lord loveth, he chastises, and scourgeth every son whom he receives." if you are to endure chastisement, God treats you as his children: for where's the son whom his father does not chastise?read more.
but if you were exempted from that discipline which others are subject to, then are you bastards, and not sons. when our natural parents corrected us, we gave them reverence: is it not much more reasonable to be in subjection to the father of spirits, in order to have life? their discipline was temporary, and the effect of humour; whereas God chastises us for our advantage, to make us partakers of his holiness. 'tis true, all correction at first is far from appearing agreeable, yet afterward it produces the agreeable fruits of virtue in those who are exercised thereby.

I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that all our fathers were under the Cloud, all passed thro' the sea: and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea; they all eat the same spiritual meat,read more.
and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.) but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness. now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day. neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents. neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel. All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.