Bible Verses About Choosing Friends

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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

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

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.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

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.

To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.