Jeremiah 16:8

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

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.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

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

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

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.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

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

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

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

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

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

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

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

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

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.

that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.