Bible Verses about “friends with unbelievers”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."”

“Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;”

“as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.”

“"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

“but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.”

“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”

“He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.”

“For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”

“Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.”

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

“The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.”

“Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”

“For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.”

“One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”

“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.”

“Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:”

“lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.”

“Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.”

“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.”