What The Bible says about: Bad Company (AMPC)

— 1 Corinthians 15:33-34; Proverbs 13:20; 1 Corinthians 5:11; Proverbs 14:7; Psalm 26:4-5; Psalm 1:1-4; Proverbs 22:24-25; Proverbs 1:10-11; Proverbs 4:14-15; Proverbs 16:29; Proverbs 28:7; Micah 6:16; Matthew 24:12; Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 5:6; 2 Corinthians 6:14-15; Ephesians 5:6-7; Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; 1 Timothy 5:22; 1 Timothy 6:5; 2 Timothy 3:4; 2 Peter 2:7; Revelation 2:2; Revelation 18:4; 

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 — 1 Corinthians 15:33-34   (AMPC)   —   Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character. Awake [from your drunken stupor and return] to sober sense and your right minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God [you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of God’s presence and all true knowledge of Him]. I say this to your shame.   — 

— Proverbs 13:20   (AMPC)  —   He who walks [as a companion] with wise men is wise, but he who associates with [self-confident] fools is [a fool himself and] shall smart for it.   —  

— 1 Corinthians 5:11   (AMPC)  —   But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.   —  —

— Proverbs 13:20   (AMPC)   —   He who walks [as a companion] with wise men is wise, but he who associates with [self-confident] fools is [a fool himself and] shall smart for it.   —

— 1 Corinthians 5:11   (AMPC)   —   But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.   —  

— Proverbs 14:7   (AMPC) — Go from the presence of a foolish and self-confident man, for you will not find knowledge on his lips —   

— Psalm 26:4-5   (AMPC)   —   I do not sit with false persons, nor fellowship with pretenders;  I hate the company of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.   —   

— Psalm 1:1-4   (AMPC)   —   Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away.   — 

— Proverbs 22:24-25   (AMPC)   —   Make no friendships with a man given to anger, and with a wrathful man do not associate, Lest you learn his ways and get yourself into a snare.   —

— Proverbs 1:10-11   (AMPC)   —   My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait [to shed] blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause [and show that his piety is in vain];   — 

— Proverbs 4:14-15   (AMPC)   —   Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not go on it; turn from it and pass on.   — 

— Proverbs 16:29   (AMPC)   —   The exceedingly grasping, covetous, and violent man entices his neighbor, leading him in a way that is not good.   —  

— Proverbs 28:7   (AMPC)   —   Whoever keeps the law [of God and man] is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons and the carousing, self-indulgent, and extravagant shames his father.—  

— Micah 6:16   (AMPC)   —   For the statutes of [idolatrous] Omri you have kept, and all the works of the house of [wicked] Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and an astonishment and your [city’s] inhabitants a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach and scorn of My people.   —  

— Matthew 24:12   (AMPC)   —   And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,   —  

— Romans 16:17   (AMPC)   —   I appeal to you, brethren, to be on your guard concerning those who create dissensions and difficulties and cause divisions, in opposition to the doctrine (the teaching) which you have been taught. [I warn you to turn aside from them, to] avoid them.   —  

— 1 Corinthians 5:6   (AMPC)   —   [About the condition of your church] your boasting is not good [indeed, it is most unseemly and entirely out of place]. Do you not know that [just] a little leaven will ferment the whole lump [of dough]?   —   

— 2 Corinthians 6:14-15   (AMPC)   — Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?    — 

— Ephesians 5:6-7   (AMPC)   —   Let no one delude and deceive you with empty excuses and groundless arguments [for these sins], for through these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of rebellion and disobedience. So do not associate or be sharers with them.   —  

— Ephesians 5:11   (AMPC)   —   Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them.   —  

— 2 Thessalonians 3:6   (AMPC)   —   Now we charge you, brethren, in the name and on the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that you withdraw and keep away from every brother (fellow believer) who is slack in the performance of duty and is disorderly, living as a shirker and not walking in accord with the traditions and instructions that you have received from us.   —  

— 1 Timothy 5:22   (AMPC)   —   Do not be in a hurry in the laying on of hands [giving the sanction of the church too hastily in reinstating expelled offenders or in ordination in questionable cases], nor share or participate in another man’s sins; keep yourself pure.   —  

— 1 Timothy 6:5   (AMPC)   —   And protracted wrangling and wearing discussion and perpetual friction among men who are corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, who imagine that godliness or righteousness is a source of profit [a moneymaking business, a means of livelihood]. From such withdraw.   —

— 2 Timothy 3:4   (AMPC)   —   [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with self-conceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God.   —  

— 2 Peter 2:7   (AMPC)   —   And He rescued righteous Lot, greatly worn out and distressed by the wanton ways of the ungodly and lawless—   —  

— Revelation 2:2   (AMPC)   —   I know your industry and activities, laborious toil and trouble, and your patient endurance, and how you cannot tolerate wicked [men] and have tested and critically appraised those who call [themselves] apostles (special messengers of Christ) and yet are not, and have found them to be impostors and liars.   —  

— Revelation 18:4   (AMPC)   —   I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues.   — 

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