Bible Verses about “choosing your friends carefully”

“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.”

“¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”

“Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”

“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”

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

“¶ 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.”

“¶ 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.”

“Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.”

“¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.”

“¶ He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.”

“¶ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way [that is] not good.”

“¶ The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.”

“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.”