Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

那暗昧无益的事，不要与人同行，倒要责备行这事的人；

那暗昧无益的事，不可参与，倒要把这种事揭发出来。

那暗昧无益的事，不可参与，倒要把这种事揭发出来。

不可参与那些黑暗无益的事，反要揭发斥责，

不要参与暗昧无益的事，倒要把它揭露出来，

你们不要参与那些属黑暗结不出果子的事，反而要把那些事揭露出来，

那暗昧無益的事，不要與人同行，倒要責備行這事的人；

那暗昧無益的事，不可參與，倒要把這種事揭發出來。

那暗昧無益的事，不可參與，倒要把這種事揭發出來。

不可參與那些黑暗無益的事，反要揭發斥責，

不要參與暗昧無益的事，倒要把它揭露出來，

別一同有分於黑暗之無善果行為了；寧可訐發出來。

你們不要參與那些屬黑暗結不出果子的事，反而要把那些事揭露出來，

毋與無實之暗行、寧責之、

闇昧之行無益、爾不可與、當責之、

暗昩無益之事、勿與人同行、惟當責之、

凡黑暗之事、無所裨益、爾等非惟不可染指、且應嚴辭責之。

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Have nothing to do with the acts of darkness. They don’t produce anything good. Show what they are really like.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.

Do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove[ them].

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them,

Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the rest will be afraid.

Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition received from us.

Then I heard another voice from heaven: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

Proclaim these things; encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people.

How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

those who, with their speech, accuse a person of wrongdoing, who set a trap for the one mediating at the city gate and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

Can a corrupt throne be your ally, a throne that makes evil laws?They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

“ Do not harbor hatred against your brother. Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

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.

to take off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,

I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!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.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light. They do not recognize its ways or stay on its paths.The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief.The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight, thinking,“ No eye will see me,” and he covers his face.In the dark they break into houses; by day they lock themselves in, never experiencing the light.For the morning is like darkness to them. Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will eat the fruit of their labor.Woe to the wicked— it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them.

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.The one who corrects a mocker will bring abuse on himself; the one who rebukes the wicked will get hurt.Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you.

Strike a mocker, and the inexperienced learn a lesson; rebuke the discerning, and he gains knowledge.

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.

Claiming to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,senseless, untrustworthy, unloving, and unmerciful.Although they know God’s just sentence— that those who practice such things deserve to die— they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate with them. Because your hand was on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.

One who becomes stiff-necked, after many reprimands will be shattered instantly— beyond recovery.

Poverty and disgrace come to those who ignore discipline, but the one who accepts correction will be honored.

“ If your brother sins against you, go tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.

they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.

Let the righteous one strike me— it is an act of faithful love; let him rebuke me— it is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. Even now my prayer is against the evil acts of the wicked.

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,

A wise correction to a receptive ear is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.

Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones.Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by.

Therefore, do not become their partners.

And he said to Sarah,“ Look, I am giving your brother one thousand pieces of silver. It is a verification of your honor to all who are with you. You are fully vindicated.”

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their knives are vicious weapons.May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For in their anger they kill men, and on a whim they hamstring oxen.Their anger is cursed, for it is strong, and their fury, for it is cruel! I will disperse them throughout Jacob and scatter them throughout Israel.