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1 Corinthians 15 33
Do not be deceived:“ Bad company corrupts good morals.”
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1 Corinthians 10 21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
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James 4:4
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
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Ephesians 5:6-14
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.Therefore, do not become their partners.For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth—testing what is pleasing to the Lord.Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.Everything exposed by the light is made visible,for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
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1 Peter 2 9-1 Peter 2 10
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Deuteronomy 22:9-11
Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.
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1 Thessalonians 5 4-1 Thessalonians 5 8
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief.For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay awake and be self-controlled.For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled and put on the armor of faith and love, and a helmet of the hope of salvation.
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Leviticus 19:19
“ You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.
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Psalms 139:21-22
LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you, and detest those who rebel against you?I hate them with extreme hatred; I consider them my enemies.
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Psalms 26:4-5
I do not sit with the worthless or associate with hypocrites.I hate a crowd of evildoers, and I do not sit with the wicked.
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Ephesians 4:17-20
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.But that is not how you came to know Christ,
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1 Kings 18 21
Then Elijah approached all the people and said,“ How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him. But if Baal, follow him.” But the people didn’t answer him a word.
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John 15:18-19
“ If the world hates you, understand that it hated me before it hated you.If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
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Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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Psalms 106:35
but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.
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Malachi 2:11
Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable act has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s sanctuary, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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Proverbs 22:24
Don’t make friends with an angry person, and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,
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1John 1:5-7
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1 Corinthians 5 9
I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
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Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,
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Romans 13:12-14
The night is nearly over, and the day is near; so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.
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Psalms 119:63
I am a friend to all who fear you, to those who keep your precepts.
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1 Peter 4 2-1 Peter 4 4
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.They are surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living— and they slander you.
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Proverbs 29:27
An unjust person is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
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Ezra 9:11-12
you gave through your servants the prophets, saying,“ The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons. Never pursue their welfare or prosperity, so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.”
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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it— that its works are evil.
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Ezra 9:1-2
After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said,“ The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
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Ezra 10:19
They pledged to send their wives away, and being guilty, they offered a ram from the flock for their guilt;
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1 Corinthians 7 39
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants— only in the Lord.
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Psalms 16:3
As for the holy people who are in the land, they are the noble ones. All my delight is in them.
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Malachi 2:15
Didn’t God make them one and give them a portion of spirit? What is the one seeking? Godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, so that no one acts treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Exodus 34:16
Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
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Nehemiah 13:1-3
At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.
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1 Samuel 5 2-1 Samuel 5 3
brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
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Psalms 44:20-21
If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god,wouldn’t God have found this out, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
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Psalms 101:3-5
I will not let anything worthless guide me. I hate the practice of transgression; it will not cling to me.A devious heart will be far from me; I will not be involved with evil.I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor; I cannot tolerate anyone with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.
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Psalms 26:9-10
Do not destroy me along with sinners, or my life along with men of bloodshedin whose hands are evil schemes and whose right hands are filled with bribes.
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Acts 4:23
After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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Proverbs 8:18-19
With me are riches and honor, lasting wealth and righteousness.My fruit is better than solid gold, and my harvest than pure silver.
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2 Chronicles 19 2
Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat,“ Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the LORD’s wrath is on you.
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1John 3:12-14
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Nehemiah 13:23-26
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said,“ You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.