⁷ Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

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

²⁷ A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

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

¹¹ But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.