Choosing friends

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• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

• Proverbs 18:24

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

• Proverbs 13:20

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

• Proverbs 27:17

  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

• Proverbs 17:17

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

• Proverbs 12:26

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

• 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.

• Ecclesiastes 4:9–10

  Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

• Proverbs 27:9

  Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

• John 15:13

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:11

  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

• Proverbs 17:9

  He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

• Proverbs 27:6

  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

• James 4:4

  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.

• Proverbs 11:14

  Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

• Proverbs 27:5–6

  Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

• Proverbs 19:20

  Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

• Proverbs 24:5

  A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

• Proverbs 27:5

  Open rebuke is better than secret love.

• Job 2:11

  Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

• Ecclesiastes 4:9

  Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

• Proverbs 27:10

  Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

• John 15:15

  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

• Luke 6:31

  And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

• 2 Kings 2:2

  And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  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 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?

• Revelation 14:12

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

• Proverbs 22:24

  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

• Proverbs 16:29

  A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

• Ecclesiastes 4:10

  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

• Job 6:14

  To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9–11

  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

• Proverbs 15:22

  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

• John 15:12–15

  This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. …

• Romans 12:10

  Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

• Psalms 1:1

  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

• Proverbs 24:6

  For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

• Psalms 133:1

  A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!