Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
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