1 Corinthians 15:33

Amplified Bible

Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't be fooled: "Bad friends will ruin good habits."

Revised Standard Version
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Be not deceaved: malicious speakinges corrupte good maners.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

International Standard Version
Stop being deceived:1 Corinthians 5:6;">[xr] "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."Thais (218)">[fn]

New American Standard Bible
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

New Century Version
Do not be fooled: "Bad friends will ruin good habits."

Update Bible Version
Don't be deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

English Standard Version
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

World English Bible
Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Weymouth's New Testament
Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nyle ye be disseyued; for yuel spechis distrien good thewis.

English Revised Version
Be not deceived: Evil company doth corrupt good manners.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good character."

Contemporary English Version
Don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.

American Standard Version
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Bible in Basic English
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't be fooled. "Bad company ruins good character."

Darby Translation
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Etheridge Translation
33 Mistake not; for Evil narrations corrupt well-disposed [fn] minds.

Murdock Translation
Be not deceived; " Evil stories corrupt well-disposed minds."

King James Version (1611)
Bee not deceiued: euill communications corrupt good manners.

New Living Translation
Don't be fooled by those who say such things, for "bad company corrupts good character."

New Life Bible
Do not let anyone fool you. Bad people can make those who want to live good become bad.

New Revised Standard
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Be not deceiued: euill speakings corrupt good maners.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not be deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be not deceiving yourselves, - evil communications corrupt gentle manners: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be not deceaued. Euyll wordes, corrupt good maners.

Good News Translation
Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character."

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

King James Version
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Lexham English Bible
Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Literal Translation
Do not be led astray; bad companionships ruin good habits.

Young's Literal Translation
Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be not ye disceaued. Euell speakinges corruppe good maners.

Mace New Testament (1729)
be not deceived : "vicious conversation corrupts good morals."

New English Translation
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

New King James Version
Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't be a fool. "Bad friends ruin a good ride."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

Contextual Overview

²⁰But now [as things really are] Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, [and He became] the first fruits [that is, the first to be resurrected with an incorruptible, immortal body, foreshadowing the resurrection] of those who have fallen asleep [in death]. ²¹For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come. ²²For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. ²³But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's [own will be resurrected with incorruptible, immortal bodies] at His coming. ²⁴After that comes the end (completion), when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after He has made inoperative and abolished every ruler and every authority and power. ²⁵For Christ must reign [as King] until He has put all His enemies under His feet. ²⁶The last enemy to be abolished and put to an end is death. ²⁷For HE (the Father) HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS (Christ's) FEET. But when He says, "All things have been put in subjection [under Christ]," it is clear that He (the Father) who put all things in subjection to Him (Christ) is excepted [since the Father is not in subjection to His own Son]. ²⁸However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [manifesting His glory without any opposition, the supreme indwelling and controlling factor of life]. ²⁹Otherwise, what will those do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people even baptized for them?

Bible Verse Review
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Be: 1 Corinthians 6:9, Matthew 24:4, Matthew 24:11, Matthew 24:24, Galatians 6:7, Ephesians 5:6, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:8-14

evil: 1 Corinthians 5:6, Proverbs 9:6, Proverbs 13:20, 2 Timothy 2:16-18, Hebrews 12:15, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 Peter 2:18-20

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:12 - pitched Genesis 39:10 - or to be Genesis 39:12 - and he left Leviticus 11:24 - General Leviticus 14:36 - be not made Leviticus 15:4 - be unclean Leviticus 15:20 - General Numbers 11:4 - the children Deuteronomy 7:16 - for that will Deuteronomy 20:8 - lest his brethren's Deuteronomy 20:18 - General Joshua 23:7 - That ye come Ruth 2:23 - General 1 Kings 11:2 - Solomon 1 Kings 22:4 - I am as thou Job 34:8 - General Psalms 26:4 - General Psalms 106:35 - learned Psalms 119:115 - Depart Psalms 141:4 - to practice Proverbs 2:12 - from the man Proverbs 4:14 - General Proverbs 22:25 - General Mark 13:5 - Take Luke 22:55 - Peter John 18:18 - Peter Romans 6:19 - unto iniquity 1 Corinthians 3:18 - deceive 2 Corinthians 6:14 - unequally Galatians 2:13 - the other Galatians 5:9 - General Ephesians 4:29 - no James 1:22 - deceiving

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be not deceived,.... By such as deny the doctrine of the resurrection, and by their reasonings about it; or by such libertines who go into the denial of it, and argue from thence in favour of their licentious course of life:

evil communications corrupt good manners. This is a sentence taken out of Menander, an Heathen poet, showing how dangerous is the conversation of evil men, and what an influence bad principles communicated and imbibed, have on the lives and practices of men. This the apostle cites not out of ostentation, or to show his reading, learning, and acquaintance with such sort of writers; but partly to observe, that this was a truth obvious by the light of nature, and partly because such a testimony might be more regarded by the Corinthians, who might be fond of such authors, and what was said by them; just as when he was at Athens among the philosophers there, he cites a passage out of Aratus, Acts 17:28 as he does another out of Epimenides concerning the Cretians, Titus 1:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be not deceived - By your false teachers, and by their smooth and plausible arguments. This is an exhortation. He had thus far been engaged in an argument on the subject. He now entreats them to beware lest they be deceived - a danger to which they were very liable from their circumstances. There was, doubtless, much that was plausible in the objections to the doctrine of the resurrection; there was much subtilty and art in their teachers, who denied this doctrine; perhaps, there was something in the character of their own minds, accustomed to subtle and abstruse inquiry rather than to an examination of simple facts, that exposed them to this danger.

Evil communications - The word rendered “communications” means, properly, a being together; companionship; close contact; converse. It refers not to discourse only, but to contact, or companionship. Paul quotes these words from Menander (in Sentent. Comicor. Greek p. 248, ed. Steph.), a Greek poet. He thus shows that he was, in some degree at least, familiar with the Greek writers; compare the note on Acts 17:28. Menander was a celebrated comic poet of Athens, educated under Theophrastus. His writings were replete with elegance, refined wit, and judicious observations. Of one hundred and eight comedies which he wrote, nothing remains but a few fragments. He is said to have drowned himself, in the 52nd year of his age, 293 b.c., because the compositions of his rival Philemon obtained more applause than his own. Patti quoted this sentiment from a Greek poet, perhaps, because it might be supposed to have weight with the Greeks. It was a sentiment of one of their own writers, and here was an occasion in which it was exactly applicable. It is implied in this, that there were some persons who were endeavoring to corrupt their minds from the simplicity of the gospel. The sentiment of the passage is, that the contact of evil-minded men, or that the close friendship and conversation of those who hold erroneous opinions, or who are impure in their lives, tends to corrupt the morals, the heart, the sentiments of others. The particular thing to which Paul here applies it is the subject of the resurrection. Such contact would tend to corrupt the simplicity of their faith, and pervert their views of the truth of the gospel, and thus corrupt their lives. It is always true that such contact has a pernicious effect on the mind and the heart. It is done:

(1) By their direct effort to corrupt the opinions, and to lead others into sin.

(2) By the secret, silent influence of their words, and conversation, and example. We have less horror at vice by becoming familiar with it; we look with less alarm on error when we hear it often expressed; we become less watchful and cautious when we are constantly with the frivilous, the worldly, the unprincipled, and the vicious. Hence, Christ sought that there should be a pure society, and that his people should principally seek the friendship and conversation of each other, and withdraw from the world. It is in the way that Paul here refers to, that Christians embrace false doctrines; that they lose their spirituality, love of prayer, fervor of piety, and devotion to God. It is in this way that the simple are beguiled, the young corrupted, and that vice, and crime, and infidelity spread over the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Be not deceived — Do not impose on yourselves, and permit not others to do it.

Evil communications corrupt good manners. — There are many sayings like this among the Greek poets; but this of the apostle, and which according to the best MSS. makes an Iambic verse, is generally supposed to have been taken from Menander's lost comedy of Thais.

Φθειρουσιν ηθη χρησθ' ὁμιλιαι κακαι·

Bad company good morals doth corrupt.

There is a proverb much like this among the rabbins:

תרי אורי יכישי ותר רטיכא אוקרן יכישי לרטיכא

"There were two dry logs of wood, and one green log; but the dry logs burnt up the green log."

There is no difficulty in this saying; he who frequents the company of bad or corrupt men will soon be as they are. He may be sound in the faith, and have the life and power of godliness, and at first frequent their company only for the sake of their pleasing conversation, or their literary accomplishments: and he may think his faith proof against their infidelity; but he will soon find, by means of their glozing speeches, his faith weakened; and when once he gets under the empire of doubt, unbelief will soon prevail; his bad company will corrupt his morals; and the two dry logs will soon burn up the green one.

The same sentiment in nearly the same words is found in several of the Greek writers; AEschylus, Sept. Theb. ver. 605: Εν παντι πραγει δ' εσθ' ὁμιλιας κακης κακιον ουδεν· "In every matter there is nothing more deleterious than evil communication."---Diodorus Siculus, lib. xvi. cap. 54: Ταις πονηραις ὁμιλιαις διεφθειρε τα ηθη των ανθρωπων· "With these evil communications he corrupted the morals of men."

Ταυτα μεν οὑτως ισθι· κακοισι δε μη προσομιλο

Ανδρασιν, αλλ' αιει των αγαθων εχεο·

Και μετα τοισιν πινε και εσθιε, και μετα τοισιν

Ἱζε, και ἁνδανε τοις, ὡν μεγαλη δυναμις.

Εσθλων μεν γαρ απ' εσθλα μαθησεαι· ην δε κακοισι

Συμμιχθῃς, απολεις και τον εοντα νοον.

Theogn. Sent., ver. 31-36.

Know this: Thou must not keep company with the wicked, but converse always with good men. With such eat, drink, and associate. Please those who have the greatest virtue. From good men thou mayest learn good things; but if thou keep company with the wicked, thou wilt lose even the intelligence which thou now possessest.