Bible Verses About Company

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.