Choosing Your Friends Carefully

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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

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

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

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

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: — read the full passage →

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

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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

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

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

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

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: — read the full passage →

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

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

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. — read the full passage →

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

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

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.

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

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

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

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

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

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →

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

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

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

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

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

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

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

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. — read the full passage →

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. — read the full passage →

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. — read the full passage →

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. — read the full passage →

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. — read the full passage →

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: — read the full passage →

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

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.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; — read the full passage →

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →