(Proverbs 27:19 GN) A mirror reflects a man’s face but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

(Proverbs 22:24-25 NLT) Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul.

(Proverbs 13:20 RSV) He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

(Matthew 7:15-16 NLT) Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

(Hebrews 10:25 NIV) Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

(Ephesians 2:19 LB) …You are members of God’s very own family… and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.