A Law Against Bad Company
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.…


An ancient historian, mentioning the laws which Charondas gave the Thurians, says: "He enacted a law with reference to an evil, on which former lawgivers had not animadverted — that of keeping bad company. As he conceived that the morals of the good were sometimes quite ruined by their dissolute acquaintance; that vice was apt, like an infectious disease, to spread itself and extend its contagion, he expressly enjoined, that none should engage in any intimacy or familiarity with immoral persons; appointed that an accusation might be exhibited for keeping bad company; and laid a heavy fine on such as were convicted of it."



Parallel Verses
KJV: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

WEB: Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.




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