Verse 20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:33-34 : 33 Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.' 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.' 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.' 18 And, 'I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding."
  • Prov 15:31 : 31 The ear that listens to life-giving correction will dwell among the wise.
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, so that you do not share in her sins and so that you do not receive any of her plagues.'
  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;' 12 Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. 14 Cast your lot among us; we will all have one purse. 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths, 16 For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird, 18 But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. 19 Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
  • Prov 2:12-20 : 12 rescuing you from the way of evil, from anyone who speaks perversely, 13 from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness. 15 Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious. 16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words, 17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed spirits. 19 None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. 20 So you will walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He follows her all at once, like an ox going to slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of shackles. 23 Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
  • Gen 13:12-13 : 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and great sinners against the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 12:8 : 8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders who had counseled him and instead consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.
  • 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 So he said to Jehoshaphat, 'Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?' Jehoshaphat answered the king of Israel, 'I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.'
  • Ps 119:63 : 63 I am a companion to all who fear You, to those who keep Your precepts.