25 Bible Verses about Bad Company

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.

But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers; I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners; But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.read more.
The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men: avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.

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

Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding; but he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold;

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness? and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

Lay hands quickly on no man, nor partake in others' sins. Keep thyself pure.

constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues: