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 15:33–34Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• Prov 15:31The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.
• Prov 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
• 2 Cor 6:14–18Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Ps 119:63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
• Rev 18:4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
• Prov 1:11–19If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Mal 3:16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
• Heb 10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
• Prov 7:22–23He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
• 1 Kgs 12:8But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
• Acts 2:42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
• 1 Kgs 12:10The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ 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 men who speak perverse things;
• Gen 13:12–13Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
• Prov 7:27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
• 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
• Gen 14:12They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
• 1 Kgs 22:4He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
• 1 Kgs 22:32When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they turned aside to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

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