Bible Verses About Bad Company
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad company, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,262 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 15:33. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bad Company
1 Corinthians 15:33840 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 13:20604 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 14:7411 votes
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 22:24-25410 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
1 Corinthians 5:11355 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
2 Corinthians 6:14320 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Psalms 26:4-5309 votes
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalms 1:1-4248 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1 John 4:1183 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Psalms 1:1173 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Proverbs 28:7171 votes
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Ephesians 5:11166 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
1 Corinthians 5:11-13141 votes
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
1 Corinthians 10:13141 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 John 2:15-17140 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Psalms 119:115128 votes
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Proverbs 2:20117 votes
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 3:5-6113 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 27:17111 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 25:26110 votes
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs 4:14-15104 votes
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
1 Corinthians 6:1886 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Psalms 1:1-285 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Proverbs 12:2678 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Matthew 5:3074 votes
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
What does the Bible say about bad company?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 15:33 on the subject of bad company. Across 9,262 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 14:7, Proverbs 22:24-25. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.