¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

²¹ My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

¹² For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

¹³ But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

⁵ Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁴ But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

⁵⁶ The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

¹⁵ My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

²¹ Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.