Bible Verses About Company

Foreigners have eaten up his strength, but he doesn't know it; yes, gray hairs appear on him here and there, but he doesn't know it.

I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put snares alongside the teaching in which you have been trained — keep away from them.

For men like these are not serving our Lord the Messiah but their own belly; by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the innocent.

In my earlier letter I wrote you not to associate with people who engage in sexual immorality.

I didn’t mean the sexually immoral people outside your community, or the greedy, or the thieves or the idol-worshippers — for then you would have to leave the world altogether!

No, what I wrote you was not to associate with anyone who is supposedly a brother but who also engages in sexual immorality, is greedy, worships idols, is abusive, gets drunk or steals. With such a person you shouldn’t even eat!

Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers. For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does light have with darkness?

What harmony can there be between the Messiah and B’liya‘al? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

Let no one deceive you with empty talk; for it is because of these things that God’s judgment is coming on those who disobey him.

So don’t become partners with them!

traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God,

as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people!

but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people;

for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.

If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;

for the person who says, “Shalom!” to him shares in his evil deeds.