We need good friends who can help us in growing in every aspect of our life. But it is not easy to get them. We cannot trust our friends and if we simply believe them then we have to suffer in our lives.
The word of God has warned us to be wise in order to have knowledge and understanding for choosing friends who can really uplift us. But if we do not get such friends then we must give up the company of the wrong crowd.
When we spend our precious time with such useless people then we put ourselves in danger. As they have no goal in their lives so we become like them. The reason we must give up their company is to build ourselves in order to get the life that the Lord has planned for us.
Let us meditate upon the following bible verses which will help us to avoid hanging out with the wrong crowd.
Proverbs 18:24(KJV) A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
John 8:34(KJV) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
1 Corinthians 10:13(KJV) 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.
Proverbs 11:14(KJV) Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 27:6(KJV) Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
1 John 4:8(KJV) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Proverbs 27:17(KJV) Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
1 John 4:1(KJV) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
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.
Acts 20:29(KJV) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Romans 12:10(KJV) Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
John 15:13(KJV) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Timothy 6:10(KJV) 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.
Job 22:18(KJV) Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Psalm 139:14(KJV) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
1 Corinthians 15:33(KJV) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
John 1:3(KJV) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Proverbs 12:6(KJV) The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Revelation 21:8(KJV) 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.
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.
Proverbs 1:10(KJV) My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Matthew 5:30(KJV) 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 20:6(KJV) Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
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?
John 15:15(KJV) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Matthew 25:46(KJV) And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Luke 6:31(KJV) And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Proverbs 19:20(KJV) Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
1 John 3:17(KJV) 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 13:20(KJV) He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 16:28(KJV) A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
1 Thessalonians 5:11(KJV) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Ephesians 4:28(KJV) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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 17:17(KJV) A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
James 4:4(KJV) 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.
Proverbs 14:7(KJV) Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs 24:5(KJV) A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Jeremiah 17:9(KJV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Proverbs 27:9(KJV) Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
Matthew 10:28(KJV) And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Proverbs 12:26(KJV) The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
