and because of the increasing crime wave, most people's love will grow cold.

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.

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

Do not be so misled: "Evil companionships corrupt good character."

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?

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.

Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.

Make it a rule not to ordain anyone in haste, and not to be responsible for the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God,

and saved the upright Lot who was constantly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless men --

"I know what you have done; your hard work and patient endurance; that you cannot tolerate wicked persons; that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles although they were not, and have found them to be imposters,

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins and suffer from her plagues.