He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
The people you walk with shape you: walk with the wise and you grow wise.
1 Corinthians 15:33
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Paul quotes a saying of his day: the company you keep shapes the way you live.
KJV1 Corinthians 15:33 in context
30And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 31I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
Paul writes to a divided church about unity, love and the resurrection.
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