Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.