Bible Verses About Choosing Your Friends Carefully
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for choosing your friends carefully, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 350 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 Choosing Your Friends Carefully
1 Corinthians 15:3397 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 12:2646 votes
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 13:2038 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 27:1723 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 18:2421 votes
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
2 Corinthians 6:1417 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Proverbs 22:24-2515 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 17:1714 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Psalms 26:4-513 votes
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Proverbs 20:1912 votes
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Proverbs 16:2911 votes
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 27:5-611 votes
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1011 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Romans 16:1711 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
James 1:13-1410 votes
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
What does the Bible say about choosing your friends carefully?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 15:33 on the subject of choosing your friends carefully. Across 350 votes, 15 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 12:26, Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 27:17. This page lists all 15 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.