67 Bible Verses about Evil Associations

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Genesis 19:15

And when the dawn rose up, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Genesis 49:6

Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull.

Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.

Deuteronomy 7:2-4

and Jehovah your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son. For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.

Joshua 23:6-13

And be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses, so that you do not turn aside from it to the right or to the left; so that you do not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them. But cleave to Jehovah your God, as you have done to this day.read more.
For Jehovah has driven out from before you great and strong nations. But as for you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day. One man of you shall chase a thousand. For Jehovah your God is He who fights for you, as He has promised you. And take good heed to yourselves that you love Jehovah your God. Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you, know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do like the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived. And you shall not do like the doings of the land of Canaan, where I bring you. Neither shall you walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 20:23

And you shall not walk in the ways of the nation which I cast out before you. For they committed all these things, and therefore I loathed them.

Numbers 16:26

And he spoke to the congregation, saying, I pray you, get away from the tents of these wicked men. And touch nothing of theirs lest you be destroyed in all their sins.

Numbers 33:55

But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain shall be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live.

Judges 2:1-3

And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break My covenant with you. And you shall make no treaty with those who live in this land. You shall throw down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. What is this that you have done? And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 12:30

take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?

2 Samuel 23:6

But the wicked, all of them, shall be like a thorn thrust away, because they cannot be taken by the hand.

Ezra 9:14

should we again break Your commandments and join hands with the people of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had crushed us, until there is no remnant nor survivor?

Psalm 6:8

Depart from me, all workers of iniquity; for Jehovah has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalm 15:4

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

Psalm 26:4

I have not sat with lying men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.

Psalm 50:18

When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and you have taken part with adulterers.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 101:4

A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know the wicked.

Psalm 106:34

They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them;

Psalm 120:5-7

Woe is me, that I live in Mesech; I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul has long dwelt with a hater of peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 141:4

Let not my heart turn aside to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

Proverbs 5:8

Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;

Proverbs 29:16

When the wicked are multiplied, sin increases; but the righteous shall see their fall.

Isaiah 1:23

your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 8:11

For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and warned me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, There is no hope; no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and each man deliver his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; He will give to her a just reward.

Hosea 7:5

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.

1 Timothy 6:5

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

2 Peter 2:7

And He delivered righteous Lot, oppressed with the lustful behavior of the lawless.

Revelation 18:4

And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues.

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1 Kings 11:4

For it happened when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Peter » Evil associations

John 18:18

And the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold. And they warmed themselves. And Peter stood with them and warmed himself.

Poverty » Contributing causes of sinful » Evil associations

worldly Snares » Evil associations

Joshua 23:13

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Evil associations

Joshua 23:13

know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

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