Bible Verses About Bad Friends
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bad friends, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,015 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 Friends
1 Corinthians 15:331,208 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 16:28568 votes
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Matthew 5:30484 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.
Proverbs 22:24-25475 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 13:20454 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 17:17342 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 14:7299 votes
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
1 John 4:8260 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 Corinthians 10:13233 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 4:1225 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.
1 John 3:17222 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Proverbs 12:26217 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
1 John 3:7-8208 votes
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Proverbs 18:24197 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Titus 3:9-11196 votes
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Proverbs 1:10154 votes
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 27:17152 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:6125 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
1 Timothy 6:10120 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Proverbs 17:9118 votes
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Revelation 21:8117 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Jeremiah 17:9105 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2 Corinthians 6:1487 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
James 4:485 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Luke 6:3184 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
What does the Bible say about bad friends?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 15:33 on the subject of bad friends. Across 10,015 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 16:28, Matthew 5:30, 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.