Bible Verses About Bad Friends

1 Corinthians 15:3333 Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” Related Topics: Addiction Friendship Gambling Relationships Temptation
John 15:12-1612 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 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. 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. Related Topics: Love Loving Others Relationships Serving Others
Proverbs 17:1717 A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. Related Topics: Love Love and Marriage Loving Others Loyalty Relationships
Proverbs 22:24-2724 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger, 25 lest you learn his ways and ensnare your soul. 26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. 27 If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? Related Topics: Anger Dating Debt Friends Friendship
Proverbs 27:5-65 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 6 The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. Related Topics: Betrayal Enemies Forgiveness in Marriage Friendship and Love Relationships
Proverbs 13:19-2119 Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. 20 One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. 21 Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous. Related Topics: Friends Friendship Friendship and Love Graduation Relationships
Proverbs 18:2424 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Related Topics: Friends Friendship Friendship and Love Loneliness Relationships
Proverbs 12:2626 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. Related Topics: Friendship and Love Temptation
Proverbs 16:28-2928 A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. 29 A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good. Related Topics: Friends Friendship Friendship and Love Gossip Temptation
Proverbs 27:1717 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. Related Topics: Community Fellowship Friends Friendship Relationships
Ecclesiastes 4:9-129 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone? 12 If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Related Topics: Friendship Love Loving Others Marriage Relationships
Proverbs 27:9-109 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. 10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother. Related Topics: Friendship and Love
Proverbs 17:99 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. Related Topics: Forgiveness Friends Friendship Friendship and Love Gossip
James 4:44 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. Related Topics: Commitment Enemies Friends Friendship Friendship and Love
Proverbs 14:6-76 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. 7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips. Related Topics: Fools
Psalm 55:12-1412 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. 13 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. 14 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company. Related Topics: Fellowship Friends Friendship Friendship and Love
2 Timothy 4:1616 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. Related Topics: Friends
Psalm 55:20-2120 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 41:5-95 My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” 6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. 7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. 8 “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.” 9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. Related Topics: Breakups Friends Friendship Gossip Vanity
Galatians 4:16-2016 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. 18 But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you— 20 but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. Related Topics: Truth
1 John 3:16-1816 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. Related Topics: Giving Helping Others Relationships Serving Serving Others
Micah 7:5-65 Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth! 6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. Related Topics: Enemies
2 Timothy 4:1010 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
Deuteronomy 13:6-116 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth— 8 you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him; 9 but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you. Related Topics: Friends Seeking God
Job 2:11-1311 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. 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great. Related Topics: Comfort Compassion Friends Friendship Grief
Matthew 5:29-3029 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. 30 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. Related Topics: Hell
Proverbs 1:8-148 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. 11 If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. 12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. 13 We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. 14 You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse”— Related Topics: Children Kids Mother's Day Mothers Relationships
Jeremiah 9:1-51 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh. 4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. 5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. Related Topics: Lying Sympathy The Tongue
Matthew 26:14-1614 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. 16 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him. Related Topics: Bribery Decision Making
Job 6:14-1714 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; 16 which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. 17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. Related Topics: Compassion Friendship Friendship and Love Summer Winter
1 Corinthians 5:11-1211 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. 12 For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within? Related Topics: Addiction Alcohol Dating Drinking Greed
Ephesians 4:29-3229 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. Related Topics: Forgiveness Grace Love Lying Marriage
Job 19:1919 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Psalm 1:1-41 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; 2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. 3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. 4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Related Topics: Blessings Graduation Motivation Sin Spring
John 3:16-1716 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. Related Topics: Anger Anxiety Death Faith Suicide
1 Corinthians 10:1313 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. Related Topics: Anxiety Comfort Self Control Stress Worry
Psalm 38:1111 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. Related Topics: Loneliness
Proverbs 19:44 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.
Galatians 6:77 Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Proverbs 9:66 Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
Ephesians 5:66 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. Related Topics: Abuse Anger

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