and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

You shall observe My law: you shall not let your cattle gender with one of a different kind, and you shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed; and you shall not put upon yourself a mingled garment woven of two [materials].

and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall smite them; you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall you pity them;

neither shall you contract marriages with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.

You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the fruit be defiled, and whatsoever seed you may sow, with the fruit of your vineyard.

You shall not wear a mingled [garment], woolen and linen together.

And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands in their abominations, [even] the Cannanite, the Hittites, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, and the Moserite and the Amorite.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and their sons, and the holy seed has passed among the nations of the lands, and the hand of the rulers [has been] first in this transgression.

which You have given us by the hand of Your servants the prophets, saying, The land, into which you go to inherit it, is a land subject to disturbance by the removal of the people of the nations for their abominations, wherewith they have filled it from one end to the other by their impurity.

And now give not your daughters to their sons, and take not of their daughters for your sons, neither shall you ever seek their peace or their goods, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and transmit it as an inheritance to your children forever.

And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and [offered] a ram of the flock for a trespass offering because of their trespass.

In that day they read in the Book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God forever;

And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, [even] every alien in Israel.

And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.

And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying,] You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works.

Be not companion to a furious man, neither lodge with a passionate man,

Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which He delighted in, and has gone after other gods.

And did he not do well? And [there was] the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take heed to your own spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.

I wrote to you in my epistle not to associate with fornicators.

A wife has been bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband also dies, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Lord.

Do not be deceived: "Evil associations corrupts good habits."

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.

And the Philistines took the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

And the people of Azotus rose early, and entered into the house of Dagon; and looked, and behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the Lord. So they lifted up Dagon, and set him in his place. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and He plagued them, and He struck them in their secret parts, [both in] Azotus and her coasts.

And Elijah drew near to them all. And Elijah said to them, How long will you halt on both feet? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.

And Jehu the prophet, the son of Hanani went out to meet him, and said to him, King Jehoshaphat, do you help a sinner, or act friendly towards one hated of the Lord? Therefore has wrath come upon you from the Lord.

On behalf of the saints that are in His land, He has magnified all His pleasure in them.

I have not sat with the council of vanity, and shall by no means enter in with transgressors.

I have hated the assembly of evildoers; and will not sit with the ungodly.

Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men;

in whose hands [are] iniquities, [and] their right hand is filled with bribes.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

for He knows the secrets of the heart.

I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.

Him that secretly speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from [me]; he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart- with him I have not eaten.

I am a companion of all them that fear You, and of them that keep Your commandments.

Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And [have I not] wasted away because of Your enemies?

I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted as my enemies.

A righteous man is an abomination to an unrighteous man, and the direct way is an abomination to the sinner.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

And being released, they came to their own, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.

We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

Wealth and glory belong to me; yea, abundant possessions and righteousness.

[It is] better to have my fruit than [to have] gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.

The night is advanced, the day is at hand. Therefore let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for [its] lusts.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who, having become callous, gave themselves over to debauchery, for the working of uncleanness with utmost greediness.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

For it is shameful even to speak of those things being done by them in secret.

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

But we, since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

who formerly [were] not a people but now [are the] people of God, who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

In regard to these, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of debauchery, reviling you.

And this is the message which we have heard from Him and we announce to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

But if we are walking in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.