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Two points require to be illustrated and enforced.

I. COMMON, EVERY DAY LIFE ASSOCIATIONS WITH EVIL HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED, in

(1) family;

(2) business;

(3) society.

Yet in all these the earnest Christian need never find it difficult to make a firm witness for truth, righteousness, and charity.

II. SPECIAL RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH EVIL WE MAY NOT MAKE. We may not

(1) for our own sake;

(2) for such friends' sake;

(3) for the sake of others who may observe our friendship, and, above all,

(4) for Christ's sake, who said, through his servant, "Come out from among them,... and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you." - R.T.

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KJV: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

WEB: I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;