Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Exhortations to shun all inducements to

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down to the pit,

Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,

Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is--to all of us.'

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,