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"Well, at least I don't have to worry about peer pressure!"

!. peer pressure. "Well, at least I don't have to worry about peer pressure!". – 102 year old woman discussing her longevity. Young people are constantly pressured to. ♦ Listen to the music everyone else listens to ♦ Talk and swear like everyone else ♦ Dress like everyone else

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"Well, at least I don't have to worry about peer pressure!"

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  1. ! peer pressure "Well, at least I don't have to worry about peer pressure!" – 102 year old woman discussing her longevity

  2. Young people are constantly pressured to... ♦ Listen to the music everyone else listens to ♦ Talk and swear like everyone else ♦ Dress like everyone else ♦ Smoke tobacco or worse ♦ Drink alcohol ♦ Have sex ♦ Even deny and speak against God

  3. Jn.12:42,43– “42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.”

  4. 1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”

  5. 1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”

  6. 1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”

  7. Don't Follow the Crowd Exo.23:2– “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:” Prov.4:14– “Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.”

  8. Avoid Evil Companions Avoid: The Fool – Prov.14:7; 13:20 The Angry Man – Prov.22:24,25 The Drunkard/Gluttons/Slothful – Prov.23:19-21 Those who teach sinful ways – Prov.4:14,15 The Adulterer – Prov.5:8 1 Cor.5:6– “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”

  9. Choose Good Companions 1 Cor.15:33– “Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” CEV – “Don’t fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.” Prov.13:20– “Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.”

  10. John Phillips, formerly of singing group “the Mamas and Papas” ABC News Nightline, March 12, 1982, “Drugs and the Entertainment Business” Q: “Why get so absorbed by something (drugs) that you know is going to tear you apart?” A: “You sort of try to emulate people around you and if you’re around people who are doing a lot of drugs, you sort of start doing them, you know.”

  11. Choose Good Companions 1 Cor.15:33– “Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” CEV – “Don’t fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you.” Prov.13:20– “Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.”

  12. Rom.8:29– “For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:” Do Not Conform to the World Rom.12:2– “And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Eph.4:22-24– “22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

  13. Be a Good Influence Matt.5:16– “Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” 1 Pet.2:9– “But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”

  14. Don't Follow the Crowd Avoid Evil Companions Choose Good Companions Do Not Conform to the World Be a Good Influence

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