keeping company with sinners

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.

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.

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.

²⁰Whoever keeps step with the wise shall be wise. A friend of the foolish will become like them.

¹¹And so, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead, refute them.

²⁴Do not be willing to be a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man, ²⁵lest perhaps you learn his ways, and take up a stumbling block to your soul.

¹⁷Jesus, having heard this, said to them: “The healthy have no need of a doctor, but those who have maladies do. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.”

⁶But we strongly caution you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to draw yourselves away from every brother who is walking in disorder and not according to the tradition that they received from us.

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.

²And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This one accepts sinners and eats with them.”

⁴I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice. ⁵I have hated the assembly of the malicious; and I will not sit with the impious.