Proverbs 13:20 (BSB)

He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

From Proverbs 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 13:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 13:20: Note, 1. Those that would be good must keep good company, which is an evidence for them that they would be good (men's character is known by the company they choose) and will be a means of making them good, of showing them the way and of quickening and encouraging them in it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 13:20: He that walketh with wise men shall be wise,.... Who is a companion of them that fear the Lord; converses frequently with them in private about spiritual and experimental things, and walks with them in public in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; he by those means grows wiser and wiser, gains a large stock of spiritual knowledge and experience; for this holds...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 13:20: The benefits of good and evil of bad society are contrasted.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 13:20: He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. (i) As he is partaker of their wickedness, and bears with their vices, so will he be punished alike as they are.