Choosing Your Friends Carefully

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

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

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

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

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

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;

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

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

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.

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

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

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

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

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

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

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

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

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

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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

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

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; — read the full passage →

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

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.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

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

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. — read the full passage →

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

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →