Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit;

And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame.

For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.

Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God!

My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."

It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.

What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."

These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.

If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.

If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.

With their shameless carousing they are like dirty spots in your fellowship meals. They take care only of themselves. They are like clouds carried along by the wind, but bringing no rain. They are like trees that bear no fruit, even in autumn, trees that have been pulled up by the roots and are completely dead.