Stay away from a fool,
    for you will not find knowledge on their lips.

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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,(A) but rather expose them.

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11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[a](A) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater(B) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 8:11, 13.

Leave your simple ways and you will live;(A)
    walk in the way of insight.”(B)

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27 Stop listening to instruction, my son,(A)
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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