Being friends with non christians

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• 2 Corinthians 6:14

  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

• 1 Corinthians 5:9–13

  I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 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 idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. …

• 2 John 1:10–11

  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

• Matthew 12:30

  He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

• Ezekiel 33:9

  Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

• Romans 12:2

  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

• Galatians 6:10

  As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

• Colossians 4:2–6

  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. …

• James 4:4–5

  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. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

• Mark 16:16

  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

• Romans 8:7

  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

• Luke 5:32

  I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

• Mark 16:15

  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

• 1 Timothy 2:4

  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

• Luke 15:7

  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

• Luke 14:23

  And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

• Luke 6:46

  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

• Matthew 7:13–14

  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

• 2 Peter 3:9

  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

• Matthew 16:19

  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

• Philippians 3:17

  Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

• Psalms 51:10–13

  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. …

• Proverbs 18:24

  A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:6

  Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

• 1 Timothy 1:1–20

  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, …

• Revelation 14:12

  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

• Ephesians 5:1

  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

• Deuteronomy 7:1–26

  When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. …

• John 8:24

  I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

• Proverbs 13:20

  He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

• Proverbs 12:26

  The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

• Leviticus 20:26

  And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

• Luke 14:26

  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

• John 3:36

  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

• Proverbs 17:17

  A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

• John 6:47

  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

• Proverbs 22:24–25

  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:14

  Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

• John 17:14–17

  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. …