Choose Godly Associations
Be careful who you associate with. Hang around good people
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Below you'll find biblical wisdom about Choose Godly Associations for business and life. Each proverb includes scripture references. Click "Show Scripture" to expand and read the full text from the English Standard Version.
Biblical Wisdom
These are biblical principles about choose godly associations, drawn from the book of Proverbs and other Scriptures.
My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths (those who take advantage of others, seek dishonest gain, steal, commit crimes and such).
Proverbs 1:15 (ESV)
15 my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
That you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.
Proverbs 5:2-5 (ESV)
2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:1-3 (ESV)
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, 2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor : go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 13:20 (ESV)
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs 17:4 (ESV)
4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Proverbs 20:19 (ESV)
19 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7 (ESV)
7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:20-21 (ESV)
20 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.