being friends with non christians

¹⁴Do not choose to bear the yoke with unbelievers. For how can justice be a participant with iniquity? Or how can the fellowship of light be a participant with darkness?

³³Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

⁹As I have written to you in an epistle: “Do not associate with fornicators,” ¹⁰certainly not with the fornicators of this world, nor with the greedy, nor with robbers, nor with the servants of idolatry. Otherwise, you ought to depart from this world. ¹¹But now I have written to you: do not associate with anyone who is called a brother and yet is a fornicator, or greedy, or a servant of idolatry, or a slanderer, or inebriated, or a robber. With such a one as this, do not even take food. ¹²For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? But do not even you yourselves judge those who are inside? ¹³For those who are outside, God will judge. But send this evil person away from yourselves.

¹⁰If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not be willing to receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him. ¹¹For whoever speaks a greeting to him, is speaking with his evil works.

³⁰Whoever is not with me, is against me. And whoever does not gather with me, scatters.

⁹But if you have announced to the impious man, so that he may be converted from his ways, and he has not converted from his way, then he will die in his iniquity. Yet you will have freed your own soul.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹⁰Therefore, while we have time, we should do good works toward everyone, and most of all toward those who are of the household of the faith.

²Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving. ³Pray together, for us also, so that God may open a door of speech to us, so as to speak the mystery of Christ, (because of which, even now, I am in chains) ⁴so that I may manifest it in the manner that I ought to speak. ⁵Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming this age. ⁶Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.

¹⁶Whoever will have believed and been baptized will be saved. Yet truly, whoever will not have believed will be condemned.

⁴You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”

³²I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.”

⁷And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

¹⁵And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.

⁴who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.