Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

When it was full, they dragged it to the beach and sitting down they gathered the good fish into vessels but flung away the bad.

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.

But in giving you the following injunction I cannot commend you; for you are the worse, not the better, for assembling together.