He who walks with wise [men] will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. Peace [be] upon Israel!

Those who have turned back from [following] the LORD, And have not sought the LORD, nor inquired of Him."

"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

"For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,

if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put [Him] to an open shame.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

Now the just shall live by faith; But if [anyone] draws back, My soul has no pleasure in 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 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 continued with us; but [they went out] that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

For her house leads down to death, And her paths to the dead;

None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life --

For she has cast down many wounded, And all who were slain by her were strong [men.]

Her house [is] the way to hell, Descending to the chambers of death.

But he does not know that the dead [are] there, [That] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.

And you [He made alive,] who were dead in trespasses and sins,

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