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1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 514 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 352 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 256 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
Proverbs 14:7 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Psalm 26:4-5 ESV / 205 helpful votes
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Psalm 1:1-4 ESV / 196 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 153 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
1 John 4:1 ESV / 147 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 111 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 Corinthians 5:11-13 ESV / 109 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 119:115 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 85 helpful votes
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Psalm 1:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 71 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Matthew 5:30 ESV / 64 helpful votes
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 56 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
1 John 3:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
John 3:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
John 16:33 ESV / 42 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
Ephesians 4:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
James 5:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Revelation 17:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
Matthew 19:28 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Proverbs 16:29 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.
Proverbs 14:6-7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans 16:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
John 15:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 13:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
Psalm 144:11-12 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;
Jude 1:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
John 14:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 24:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 27 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
2 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
Matthew 5:29-30 ESV / 26 helpful votes
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Ephesians 5:6-7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them;
2 Peter 2:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
1 Timothy 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Proverbs 22:25 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Psalm 26:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Revelation 2:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
Micah 6:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”
Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Proverbs 1:10-11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;
Revelation 18:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
2 John 1:10-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …
Proverbs 4:14-15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
James 4:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …
Luke 1:37 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 17 helpful votes
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
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