⁹ In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

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

¹⁴ And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

¹⁴ Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

⁶ Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

¹ Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

⁶ Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

² And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.

⁷ Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,