15 Bible Verses about Associations
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Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
One day, divine beings presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them.
Some time later, divine beings again presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them to present himself to the LORD.
But he delights in the LORD's instruction, and meditates in his instruction day and night.
I do not sit with those committed to what is false, nor do I travel with hypocrites.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's desk and told him, "Follow me." So he got up and followed him. While he was having dinner at Matthew's home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples. The Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"read more.
When Jesus heard that, he said, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick people do. Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.
After this, Jesus traveled from one city and village to another, preaching and spreading the good news about God's kingdom. The Twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; Joanna, the wife of Herod's household manager Chuza; Susanna; and many others. These women continued to support them out of their personal resources.
Do not ordain anyone hastily. Do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant soldier, but he was also the son of a prostitute and Jephthah's father Gilead. Gilead's wife bore two sons through him, but when his wife's sons grew up, they expelled Jephthah and declared to him, "You won't have an inheritance in this house, since you're the son of a different woman." So Jephthah escaped from his brothers and lived in the territory of Tob, where worthless men gathered themselves around him and went out on raiding parties with him.
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Associations » Good » General references to good company
This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.
Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
But now I am writing to you to stop associating with any so-called brother if he is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunk, or a robber. You must even stop eating with someone like that.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Emphasized by solomon
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Illustrated in the life of moses
Then Moses responded, "Please don't leave us now, since you know where we can camp in the wilderness. You could be our guide.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Appreciated by Christ
Taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, he began to be grieved and troubled.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Seen in God's original plan
Later, the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him."
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Shown by the sending forth of the disciples two by two
After this, the Lord appointed 70 other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.
Associations » Man needs the comfort and help of » Recognized by paul in his missionary work
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me to do the work for which I called them."
Evil » Associations » Results of » Divine wrath
where Hanani's son Jehu, the seer, went out to meet him. He asked King Jehoshaphat, "Should you be helping those who are wicked, yes or no? Should you love those who hate the LORD? Wrath is headed your way directly from the LORD because of this.
Whoever keeps company with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
should we violate your commandments by intermarrying with the nations who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you had consumed us, with not even a remnant surviving to escape?
Evil » Associations » Results of » Misery
But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.
After this incident, he loved a woman in Sorek Valley whose name was Delilah.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Denial of Christ
Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"
Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Defilement
Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."
Evil » Associations » Results of » Parental shame
Whoever keeps the Law is a discerning son, but whoever keeps company with gluttons brings shame to his father.
Evil » Associations » Results of » Apostasy
all of them from nations that the LORD had ordered the Israelis, "You are not to associate with them and they are not to associate with you, because they will most certainly turn your affections away to follow their gods." Solomon became deeply attached to them by falling in love.
Topics on Associations
Evil Associations
Genesis 19:15As dawn was breaking, the angels pressured Lot. "Get going!" they told him. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be engulfed by the devastation that's coming to this city."
Warnings Of Evil Associations
Proverbs 22:24Don't make friends with a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with someone who is easily angered,