He who walks with the wise will be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

and those drawing back from following Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired of Him.

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

For it is impossible for those who at one time were given understanding, and have tasted the Heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and also turn aside, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and expose Him to public disgrace.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the full true knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour those who oppose.

Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul is not pleased with him.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit, and, a sow, having been washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that not all of them are of us.

For her house leads down to death, and her tracks to the spirits of the dead.

No one going in to her returns, nor do they attain unto the ways of life.

For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, and countless are the ones slain by her.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there; the ones she summons are in the depths of Sheol.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you, serving themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;