Traits to avoid in friends and self

Traits to avoid in friendsandself by lcl

Don’t you know, we just can’t cozy up to some people without endangering ourselves and getting tempted by some bad habits and traits. Don’t join the crowd and don’t become one. Here are the biblical cautions:

Pro 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is your life. Pro 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.

Pro 4:15 Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on!

Pro 4:16 For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. Pro 6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man walks with a crooked mouth,

Pro 6:13 winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers;

Pro 6:14 perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting. Pro 6:16 These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

Pro 6:17 a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, Pro 6:18 a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

Pro 6:19 a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers. Pro 6:32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

Pro 6:33 He shall get a wound and dishonor; and his shame shall not be wiped away.

Pro 10:11 The mouth of a righteous one is a well of life; but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Pro 10:12 Hatred stirs up fights, but love covers all sins.

Pro 10:18 He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who speaks a slander, is a fool.

Pro 11:9 A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

Pro 11:27 He who carefully seeks good gets favor; but he who seeks mischief, it shall come to him.

Pro 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to advice is wise. Pro 12:22 Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal truly are His delight.

Pro 14:9 Fools laugh at sin, but among the righteous thereisfavor.

Pro 16:5 Everyone proud in heart is hateful to Jehovah; though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Pro 16:27 An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.

Pro 16:28 A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends. Pro 16:29 A violent man lures his neighbor and makes him go in a way not good.

Pro 16:30 He shuts his eyes to think of perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

Pro 19:3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against Jehovah. Pro 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and a breather of lies shall not escape.

Pro 20:19 A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips. Pro 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury,

Pro 22:25 lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

Pro 23:6 Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods;

Pro 23:7 for as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Pro 23:9 Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Pro 23:20 Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves,

Pro 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Pro 24:21 My son, fear Jehovah and the king; and do not fellowship with those who are given to change;

Pro 24:22 for their trouble shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

Pro 24:28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips.

Pro 25:8 Do not go forth quickly to fight, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

Pro 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him.

Rom_16:17 And I exhort you, brothers, to watch those making divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

2Ti_2:23 But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they give birth to strifes.

Tit_3:9 But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

Thus, avoid the immoral, the hotheads quick to anger, the foolish, gossips, the extravagant, the disloyal and those putting down God’s doctrines.

Take hope and strength in God:

Deu_31:6 Be strong and of a good courage. Do not fear nor be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is He who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.

Deu_31:6 Be strong and of a good courage. Do not fear nor be afraid of them. For Jehovah your God is He who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.

Jos_1:7 Only be strong and very courageous so that you may be careful to do according to all the Law which My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may act wisely wherever you go.

1Ch_28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Do not fear, nor be dismayed, for Jehovah God, my God, will be with you. He will not fail you nor leave you until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of Jehovah.

2Ch_15:7 But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

Eph_6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.