Bible Verses About Keeping Company with Sinners
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for keeping company with sinners, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,833 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 5:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Keeping Company with Sinners
1 Corinthians 5:11386 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 6:14362 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Psalms 1:1358 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 Corinthians 15:33320 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 13:20292 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Ephesians 5:11199 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Proverbs 22:24-25180 votes
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Mark 2:17174 votes
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
2 Thessalonians 3:6150 votes
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
James 4:4126 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 15:2117 votes
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke 15:7108 votes
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
1 Peter 4:3-4107 votes
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Psalms 26:4-5106 votes
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
John 4:5-4291 votes
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Luke 15:1-288 votes
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
John 7:16-1887 votes
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
2 Thessalonians 3:1481 votes
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
1 Corinthians 9:2280 votes
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Matthew 9:10-1377 votes
And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
John 15:1374 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 16:1773 votes
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Proverbs 4:14-1571 votes
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs 1:10-1563 votes
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Psalms 1:1-462 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.
What does the Bible say about keeping company with sinners?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 5:11 on the subject of keeping company with sinners. Across 5,833 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Corinthians 6:14, Psalms 1:1, 1 Corinthians 15:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.