1 CORINTHIANS 15:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character' — Paul warns: the Corinthians' denial of resurrection is not intellectual innocence but a moral corruption spread by false teachers (possibly Epicurean philosophy). A proverb (attributed to Menander) reinforces the warning.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:33
“Be not deceived: evil company does corrupt good manners.” And this he said, both to rebuke them as without understanding, (for here he by a charitable expression, calls “good” that which is easily deceived,) and also, as far as he could, to make some allowance to them for the past with a view to their return, and to remove from them and transfer to others the greater part of his charges, and so by this way also to allure them to repentance. Which he does likewise in the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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