Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Make no friendship with an angry man; And with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.
She weepeth sore in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks: Among all her lovers She hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, When thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: But a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
I have not sat with vain persons, Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; And will not sit with the wicked.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch not the unclean thing; And I will receive you,
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: But the way of the wicked seduceth them.
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.