30 Bible Verse About Bad Friends

“Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.”

“Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’”

“Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.”

“One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.”

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”

“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”

“The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”

“For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.”

“Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips.”

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”

“One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.”

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.”

“But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.”

“Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.”

“Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.”

“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”

“The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.”

“Fear the Lord and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious officials, for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?”

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

“Those who flatter their neighbors are spreading nets for their feet.”

“A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much.”

“Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.”

“Or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.”

“I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites. I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked.”

“A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.”

“When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.”

“If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.”

“Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.”