"Our responsibility for our friendships is not confined to making sure that our influence over others is for good. We have also a duty to ourselves. As we possess the gift of influence over others, so we in turn are affected by every life which touches ours." -Hugh Black
1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV) Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Proverbs 18:24 (ESV) A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 22:24 (ESV) Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Proverbs 27:6 (ESV) Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 27:10 (ESV) Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
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