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.
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“¶ 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 not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
“But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;”
“¶ 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.”
“¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.”
“Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”
“¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
“‹And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast› [it] ‹from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not› [that] ‹thy whole body should be cast into hell.›”
“¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:”
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
“Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.”
“¶ The righteous [is] more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.”
“¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.”