Keeping Company With Sinners

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. — read the full passage →

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. — read the full passage →

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

He told them this parable. — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. — read the full passage →

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →