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20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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33 Do not be deceived:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

34 Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.(A)

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Lay aside immaturity and live,
    and walk in the way of insight.”(A)

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31 The ear that heeds wholesome admonition
    will lodge among the wise.

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The Temple of the Living God

14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?(A) 15 What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said,

“I will live in them[b] and walk among them,
    and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.(B)
17 Therefore come out from them,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
    then I will welcome you,(C)
18 and I will be your father,
    and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.16 Other ancient authorities read you
  2. 6.16 Or in their midst

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

“Come out of her, my people,
    so that you do not take part in her sins
and so that you do not share in her plagues,(A)

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63 I am a companion of all who fear you,
    of those who keep your precepts.(A)

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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;(A)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.(B)
13 We shall find all kinds of costly things;
    we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14 Throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—
15 my child, do not walk in their way;
    keep your foot from their paths,(C)
16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.(D)
17 For in vain is the net baited
    while the bird is looking on;
18 yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
    and set an ambush—for their own lives!
19 Such is the end[a] of all who are greedy for gain;
    it takes away the life of its possessors.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.19 Gk: Heb are the ways

24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,

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The Reward of the Faithful

16 Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name.(A)

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27 Her house is the way to Sheol,
    going down to the chambers of death.(A)

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22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]
23     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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12 It will save you from the way of evil,
    from those who speak perversely,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to walk in the ways of darkness,(A)
14 who rejoice in doing evil
    and delight in the perverseness of evil,(B)
15 those whose paths are crooked
    and who are devious in their ways.(C)

16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(D)
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant,
18 for her way[c] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;(E)
19 those who go to her never come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 Therefore walk in the way of the good,
    and keep to the paths of the just.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman
  3. 2.18 Cn: Heb house

10 The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus you should say to this people who spoke to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must lighten it for us’; thus you should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

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12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.(A) 13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.(B)

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But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.(A)

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He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I am as you are; my people are your people; my horses are your horses.”(A)

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12 they also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods and departed.(A)

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Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.(A)

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32 When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him, and Jehoshaphat cried out.(A)

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