Proverbs 23:21

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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.

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.

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,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

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

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

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.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

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 if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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.”

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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

“You shall have no other gods before me.

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

“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.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

“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.

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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.

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

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.