Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God

What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God said, “I will house myself in them, . . . and I will walk among you. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Therefore Adonai says, “‘Go out from their midst; separate yourselves; don’t even touch what is unclean. Then I myself will receive you.

In fact, I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters.’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”

Let no one deceive you with empty talk; for it is because of these things that God’s judgment is coming on those who disobey him.

So don’t become partners with them!

Have nothing to do with the deeds produced by darkness, but instead expose them,

so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,

Behave wisely toward outsiders, making full use of every opportunity —

Now, in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we command you, brothers, to stay away from any brother who is leading a life of idleness, a life not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

and constant wrangling among people whose minds no longer function properly and who have been deprived of the truth, so that they imagine that religion is a road to riches.

as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people!

Keep pursuing shalom with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many,

but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.

but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people;

for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.

Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him.

But you, dear friends, since you know this in advance, guard yourselves; so that you will not be led away by the errors of the wicked and fall from your own secure position.

Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.

If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;

for the person who says, “Shalom!” to him shares in his evil deeds.

“I know what you have been doing, how hard you have worked, how you have persevered, and how you can’t stand wicked people; so you tested those who call themselves emissaries but aren’t — and you found them to be liars.

But you have this in your favor: you hate what the Nicolaitans do — I hate it too.

Therefore, turn from these sins. Otherwise, I will come to you very soon and make war against them with the sword of my mouth.