Bible Verses about “bad company”
The Bible contains 16 verses about bad company across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].”
“¶ 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 his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
“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.”
“¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
“¶ Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.”
“Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”
“¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.”
“I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.”
“I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.”