Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to hate and avoid
But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.
Verse Concepts
I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people -- not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world. Now what I really meant was for you to stop associating with any so-called brother, if he is sexually immoral, a greedy grasper, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler -- with such a person you must even stop eating.
Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient. So you must stop having anything to do with them.
and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
Verse Concepts
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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