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 15:33–34Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• Prov 15:31The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
• Prov 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• 2 Cor 6:14–18Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• Ps 119:63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
• Rev 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
• Prov 1:11–19If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Mal 3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
• Heb 10:24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
• Prov 7:22–23He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
• 1 Kgs 12:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
• Acts 2:42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• 1 Kgs 12:10And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
• Prov 2:12–20To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
• Gen 13:12–13Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
• 2 Chr 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
• Gen 14:12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
• 1 Kgs 22:4And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
• 1 Kgs 22:32And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

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