Bad Friends

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

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: — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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? — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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

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

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

Open rebuke is better than secret love. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. — read the full passage →

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. — read the full passage →

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.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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

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

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. — read the full passage →

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

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

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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.

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

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

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; — read the full passage →

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: — read the full passage →

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. — read the full passage →

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, — read the full passage →

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. — read the full passage →

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, 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. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: — read the full passage →