Bad Friends

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

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

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

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. — read the full passage →

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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

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

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

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

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

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

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — read the full passage →

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; — read the full passage →

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. — read the full passage →

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

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

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw 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 favor with God and men.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, 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? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” — read the full passage →

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →