Jeremiah 16:8

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Jeremiah 16:8

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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I dwell not among the council of scorners, neither is my delight therein: but I dwell only in the fear of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with bitterness.

I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

It is better to go into a house of mourning, than into a banquet house: For there is the end of all men, and he that is living taketh it to heart.

And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.

Ye that lie upon beds of ivory, and use your wantonness upon your couches; ye that eat the best lambs of the flock, and the fattest calves of the drove;

For as in the days before the flood: they did eat and drink, marry, and were married, even unto the day that Noah entered in to the ship,

They ate, they drank, they married wives and were married even unto the same day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

but now I write unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eat not.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather rebuke them.