Keeping Company With Sinners

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, — read the full passage →

And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.'

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not. — read the full passage →

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, — read the full passage →

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son; — read the full passage →

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me; — read the full passage →

and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

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

And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And he spake unto them this simile, saying, — read the full passage →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, — read the full passage →

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?' — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world--

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners; — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Not good <FI>is<Fi> your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?

and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners--first of whom I am;

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. — read the full passage →

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax-gatherers and sinners, said to his disciples, `Why--that with the tax-gatherers and sinners he doth eat and drink?'

A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent <FI>is<Fi> easy. — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

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

Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

And Levi made a great entertainment to him in his house, and there was a great multitude of tax-gatherers and others who were with them reclining (at meat), — read the full passage →

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.

And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come, — read the full passage →

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

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

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed--Christ,

Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?' — read the full passage →