14 Bible Verses about Evil Associations
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and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
But I beseech you, brethren, to keep a watch on those who are causing the divisions among you, and are leading others into sin, in defiance of the instruction which you have received; and habitually to shun them.
It is no good thing--this which you make the ground of your boasting. Do you not know that a little yeast corrupts the whole of the dough?
Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.
But, by the authority of the Lord, we command you, brethren, to stand aloof from every brother whose life is disorderly and not in accordance with the teaching which all received from us.
Do not ordain any one hastily; and do not be a partaker in the sins of others; keep *yourself* pure.
and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.
treacherous, headstrong, self-important. They will love pleasure instead of loving God,
But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.
I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars.
Then I heard another voice from Heaven, which said, "Come out of her, My people, that you may not become partakers in her sins, nor receive a share of her plagues.
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Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.
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Warnings Of Evil Associations
1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote to you in that letter that you were not to associate with fornicators;