Bible Verses About Company

Wherefore, I sayd also, I wil not cast them out before you, but they shalbe as thornes vnto your sides, and their gods shalbe your destruction.

But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.

But the man that shall touch them, must be defensed with yron, or with the shaft of a speare: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.

I haue not hanted with vaine persons, neither kept companie with the dissemblers.

I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked.

Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commanded them,

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,

Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.

My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.

Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?

I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:

My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

And deliuer thee from the euill way, and from the man that speaketh froward things,

Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,

Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.

For the Lord spake thus to me in taking of mine hand, and taught me, that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,

Say ye not, A confederacie to all them, to whome this people sayth a confederacie, neither feare you their feare, nor be afrayd of them.

Ephraim hath mixt himselfe among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned.