Bible Verses about “bad friends”
The Bible contains 19 verses about bad friends across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
“Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?”
“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
“A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.”
“knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.”
“One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
“If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.”
“Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:”
“He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
“lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.”
“Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.”
“A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
“Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.”