Bible Verses About Company

This is why I also said, 'I will not drive them out before you; but they will be on your flanks, and their gods will become a snare for you.'"

"But the ungodly are like thorn bushes to be pushed aside, every one of them. They cannot be taken in one's hand;

To touch them one uses pitchfork or spear-shaft, and then only to burn them where they lie."

I have not sat with worthless folks, I won't consort with hypocrites,

I hate the company of evildoers, I will not sit with the wicked.

They failed to destroy the peoples, as ADONAI had ordered them to do,

but mingled with the nations and learned to follow their ways.

How wretched I am, that I'm an alien in Meshekh, that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

I have had to live far too long with those who hate peace.

I am all for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

ADONAI, how I hate those who hate you! I feel such disgust with those who defy you!

I hate them with unlimited hatred! They have become my enemies too.

My son, if sinners entice you, don't go along with them.

Suppose they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

Throw in your lot with us; we'll share a common purse"-

my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their path;

discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,

Don't follow the path of the wicked or walk on the way of evildoers.

Avoid it, don't go on it, turn away from it, and pass on.

Don't associate with an angry man; make no hot-tempered man your companion.

If you do, you may learn his ways and find yourself caught in a trap.

For this is what ADONAI said to me, speaking with a strong hand, warning me not to live the way this people does:

"Don't regard as alliance what this people calls alliance, and don't fear what they fear or be awestruck by it;

"Efrayim mixes himself with the peoples, Efrayim has become a half-baked cake.