If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom.

Men

"No, every good tree bears good fruit, but a worthless tree bears bad fruit.

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing;

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward.

Supposing

Now godliness with contentment is truly gainful;

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;

"It is written," he said, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves."

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But when Simon perceived that, by the laying on of the apostles' hands, the Spirit was given, he offered them money saying,

There was a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, and brought rich profit to his workmen.

for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

In their covetousness, with cunning words, they will make merchandise of you; those whose doom has not been idle from of old, and whose destruction has not been slumbering.

Alas for them! They have walked in the path of Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed headlong into Balaam's error, and have perished in Koran's rebellion.

For all nations, having drunk the wine of the frenzy of her fornication, are fallen; And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, And the merchants of the earth have grown rich by the power of her wantonness."

From

I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

General references

But if any one disregard it he will be disregarded.

Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.