Proverbs 13:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a 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 Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!
  • 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness? 15 And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever? 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you, 18 and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the All-Powerful Lord.
  • Prov 9:6 : 6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”
  • Prov 15:31 : 31 The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,“Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. 13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder. 14 Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.” 15 My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path; 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood. 17 Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain 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 all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
  • Prov 2:12-20 : 12 to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity, 13 who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways, 14 who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil; 15 whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways; 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God. 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life. 20 So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
  • Prov 7:22-23 : 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 The Fellowship of the Early Believers They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
  • Gen 13:12-13 : 12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom. 13 (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)
  • 1 Kgs 12:8 : 8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.
  • 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat,“Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel,“I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.”
  • Ps 119:63 : 63 I am a friend to all your loyal followers, and to those who keep your precepts.

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  • Prov 13:19
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    19A desire fulfilled will be sweet to the soul, but fools abhor turning away from evil.

  • Prov 14:7-9
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    7Walk abreast with a foolish person, and you do not understand wise counsel.

    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

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  • Prov 10:8-9
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    8The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

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    15The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.

  • Prov 28:7
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  • Prov 13:16
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    16Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Prov 14:15-18
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    15A naive person will believe anything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.

    16A wise person is cautious and turns from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is overconfident.

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  • Prov 19:1
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  • Prov 13:21
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    21Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

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    15Live Wisely Therefore consider carefully how you live– not as unwise but as wise,

  • Prov 21:16
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    16The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 17:12
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  • Prov 15:14
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    14The discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

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  • Prov 29:3
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    35The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

  • Prov 21:20
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    20There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.

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    21Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

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    5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

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    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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    17The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.