2 Corinthians 6:14

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.

You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is included in the book of the kings of Israel.

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

“ ‘You shall keep my statutes. “ ‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “ ‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “ ‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth Gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.

Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,