In the letter that I wrote you I told you not to associate with immoral people.

What I meant was that you should not associate with a person who calls himself a believer but is immoral or greedy or worships idols or is a slanderer or a drunkard or a thief. Don't even sit down to eat with such a person.

Then Levi had a big feast in his house for Jesus, and among the guests was a large number of tax collectors and other people.

Some Pharisees and some teachers of the Law who belonged to their group complained to Jesus' disciples. "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and other outcasts?" they asked.

Then go and get the prize calf and kill it, and let us celebrate with a feast!

All the people who saw it started grumbling, "This man has gone as a guest to the home of a sinner!"

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another.

You are free to eat anything sold in the meat market, without asking any questions because of your conscience.

We write to you only what you can read and understand. But even though you now understand us only in part, I hope that you will come to understand us completely, so that in the Day of our Lord Jesus you can be as proud of us as we shall be of you.

We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.

We know what it means to fear the Lord, and so we try to persuade others. God knows us completely, and I hope that in your hearts you know me as well.