There is no doubt in my mind that we are influenced by the company we keep.
I have seen the evidence for this in my own life, and in the lives of my friends and family. I have seen good children turn rebellious and anti-social through the peer pressure of Public school. I have seen godly women led astray into adultery through the company of unsaved men. I have seen well-meaning Christian teenagers abandon their faith for the affections of an unsaved partner. I have seen good little children ruined by the bad example of other little children. .
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The only person who was not influenced by the company he kept was Jesus, but even that took him some effort and focus, because the pressure was on him too to change his lifestyle. His disciples (unconsciously) tried to alter his path - Peter even tried to talk him out of going to Jerusalem to die - and all through his life from childhood upwards he had friends and family either mocking him or tempting him to go outside the Father's will. His childhood friends, full of mischief and small sins must have put some pressure on him to disobey the authority figures in his life, and as he passed through adolescence his hormones would have had their normal effect on a growing young man. He would have been attracted to the beautiful young women of his town, and perhaps tempted to pursue vocations which were not part of the divine plan for his life. And yet Jesus never sinned, in thought, word, or deed - Heb.4:15 and Heb.5:8.
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But Jesus was unique. He was similar to us in many ways, but also totally unique in other ways. But, some will say, Christians have received the Spirit of God into their lives, and are therefore in touch with the power of God - which ought to help them walk the same path as Jesus - but unlike Jesus, Christians are also influenced by their inherited sinful nature. Jesus never had a sinful nature. He was not a descendant of Adam by the male line.
