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Friendship
“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul” (Proverbs 22:24-25).
People are known and formed by the company they keep. The Bible clearly states, “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners” (1 Corinthians 15:33). This shows the importance of considering carefully and prayerfully the question of intimate association, companionship, and fellowship. To keep company with a person given to wrath and fury is to be contaminated by their hasty ways, and to bring a snare upon our own soul. Anger and malice are the works of the flesh. With such the Christian should have no association, for we are too easily defiled by such things; and to go on in company with one displaying such evidences of unjudged sin is to endanger our own walk and testimony for the Lord.
Here are a couple of other verses from the book of Proverbs, concerning the results of anger:
“He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly”
(Proverbs 14:17).
“An angry man stirreth up strife” (Proverbs 29:22).
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