15 Bible Verses about Associations
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Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him. And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?read more.
But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
And he went up into the mountain, and sent for those whom it was his pleasure to have with him: and they went to him.
And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve, And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out, And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.
Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father. And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman. So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.
From Thematic Bible
Associations » Good » General references to good company
I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Emphasized by solomon
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Illustrated in the life of moses
And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Appreciated by Christ
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Seen in God's original plan
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Shown by the sending forth of the disciples two by two
Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Recognized by paul in his missionary work
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Divine wrath
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?
Evil » Associations » Results of » Misery
But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.
Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Denial of Christ
But Simon Peter was still there warming himself by the fire. They said to him, Are you not one of his disciples? He said, No, I am not.
Now the servants and the police had made a fire of coals because it was cold; they were warming themselves in front of it and Peter was there with them, warming himself.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Defilement
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Parental shame
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Apostasy
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
Topics on Associations
Evil Associations
Genesis 19:15And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.
Warnings Of Evil Associations
Proverbs 22:24Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
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