Proverbs 13:20

Companions shape character: walk with the wise and grow wise; befriend fools and suffer harm. Choose your associations carefully.

Cross-references · 21

• 1 Cor 15:33–34Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
• Prov 15:31He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
• Prov 9:6Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• 2 Cor 6:14–18Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
• Ps 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
• Rev 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
• Prov 1:11–19If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
• Mal 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
• Heb 10:24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
• Prov 7:22–23He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
• 1 Kgs 12:8But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
• Acts 2:42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
• 1 Kgs 12:10The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
• Prov 2:12–20to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
• Gen 13:12–13Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
• Gen 14:12They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
• 1 Kgs 22:4So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, “I am like you, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
• 1 Kgs 22:32When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely this is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.

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