"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."
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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
One who walks with wise men grows wise, But a companion of fools suffers harm.
Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.