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Bible Verses About Bad Friends

117 verses from Scripture about bad friends.

117 Verses
1 Corinthians 15:331 Corinthians

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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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.

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Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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

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Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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1 Corinthians 10:131 Corinthians

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.

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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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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?

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The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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Revelation 21:8Revelation

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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2 Corinthians 6:142 Corinthians

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

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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.

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1 Corinthians 6:191 Corinthians

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth .

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Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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