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Summary
- Jesus ate with tax collectors and people called sinners, and his critics called him “a friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Luke 7:34; Matthew 11:19).
- He answered the objection with “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:32).
- Paul told the Corinthians not to associate with immoral people who call themselves believers, and said he did not mean outsiders, “since then you would need to go out of the world” (1 Corinthians 5:9–13).
- “Bad company ruins good morals” (1 Corinthians 15:33) is a line of Greek verse Paul quoted in his argument for the resurrection; Proverbs gives similar warnings about taking on a companion’s ways.
- “Unequally yoked” (2 Corinthians 6:14) names no particular relationship; churches have often applied it to marriage.
- Neither “in the world but not of it” nor “love the sinner, hate the sin” is a Bible verse; the first summarizes John 17:15–18, the second echoes a letter of Augustine.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations from the English Standard Version (Luke 5:29–32; 7:34; 15:1–2, 7, 10; 19:5–10; Matthew 9:13; 11:19; 1 Corinthians 5:9–13; 15:12, 32–34; 2 Corinthians 6:14, 16; 2 Thessalonians 3:14–15; Colossians 4:5–6; Proverbs 13:20; 22:24–25; Psalm 1:1; Leviticus 19:19; James 1:27; 4:2, 4; 1 John 2:16; John 17:15–18; 1 Peter 3:15; 4:4), including the ESV footnote on 1 Corinthians 15:33. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15&version=ESV
- New International Version, 1 Corinthians 15:33. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+15%3A33&version=NIV
- Thayer’s Greek Lexicon and Strong’s Concordance, entry 2086, heterozygeō. https://biblehub.com/greek/2086.htm
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), chapter 24, “Of Marriage and Divorce,” section 3, in the text of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. https://opc.org/wcf.html
- Augustine of Hippo, Letter 211 (A.D. 423), section 11, trans. J. G. Cunningham, New Advent. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102211.htm
- The Dordrecht Confession of Faith (21 April 1632), Article XVII, “Of Shunning the Separated.” https://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/dcf.htm
- “Dordrecht Confession of Faith,” Wikipedia, on its later use among Anabaptist groups including the Amish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dordrecht_Confession_of_Faith
