Bible verses about "influence" | Riverside

¹⁵ but exalt Christ as Lord in your hearts and be always ready to defend yourselves to every one who asks you to give account of the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. ¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is useful for teaching, for proof, for correction of error, for education in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

⁷ You were running finely. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? ⁸ The persuasion was not from him who called you. ⁹ A little yeast sets the whole lump fermenting.

¹⁶ Keep a good conscience that, although you are slandered, those who misrepresent your good life in Christ may be put to shame.

¹² Keep your daily life among the Gentiles honorable, so that, although they talk against you as if you were wrongdoers, they may, from your noble deeds that they see, glorify God on the day of inspection.

¹³ "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt becomes flat, with what can it be salted? It is good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. ¹⁴ You are the light of the world. A city cannot be hidden if set on a hill. ¹⁵ People do not light a lamp and put it under a peck-measure, but on the stand, and it gives light for all in the house. ¹⁶ So let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

³³ Do not be led astray; "bad associations corrupt good morals."