We are unable to live alone here. We need someone with whom we can communicate our ideas and aspirations. We, therefore, need people with whom we can share all of our intentions and secrets. If one of our friends betrays us, we feel upset and are put in a tough position.
Because friends are so important to us in our life, we must choose them carefully. We must determine which people to refer to as friends. We should always be encouraged by friends to follow God’s directions. If we discover that our friends are not walking with God, we must cut ties with them in order to preserve our souls.
To learn how to choose friends, let’s read and reflect on the following Bible Verses.
1 Corinthians 15:33(KJV) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverbs 17:17(KJV) A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 13:20(KJV) He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 18:24(KJV) A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:20(KJV) Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 24:5(KJV) A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 27:6(KJV) Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:5(KJV) Open rebuke is better than secret love.
2 Corinthians 6:14(KJV) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Thessalonians 5:11(KJV) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Proverbs 16:28(KJV) A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 12:26(KJV) The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs 27:10(KJV) Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 15:22(KJV) Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Job 2:11(KJV) Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Proverbs 1:10(KJV) My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 22:24(KJV) Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go.
Proverbs 19:4(KJV) Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Psalm 1:1(KJV) 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 22:11(KJV) He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
1 Corinthians 5:11(KJV) 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 idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
