1 Corinthians 15:33 (WEB)
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Fathers and councils · 25
Jerome
“You know the meaning of language, or you would not quote Epimenides, Menander, and Aratus.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“For “evil communications corrupt good manners,” and women like these care for nothing but their lowest appetites.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“For “evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“In another epistle Paul quotes a line of Menander: “Evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33. The line is also attributed to Euripides.
Read the whole comment“It may be literally rendered at the expense of the metre: “evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33; the words are quoted from a lost comedy of Menander.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But for the rest, let our most beloved brethren firmly decline, and avoid the words and conversations of those whose word creeps onwards like a cancer; as the apostle says, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“And again, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
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Gregory the Great
“For Evil communications corrupt good manners (1 Cor. xv. 33).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““That they may in the obscure moon shoot at the upright in heart:” that when they see, from the Church’s light being obscured by the multitude of the unlearned and the carnal, that they cannot be convicted, they may corrupt good manners by evil communications.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“All schisms, all heresies, all within who live wickedly and engraft their own character on those who live well, and draw them over to their own side, and with evil communications corrupt good manners; these persons “transgressing the law rose up against Me.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“Beware lest such men persuade you of aught: let them not enter through your ears into your heart; let them find thorns in your ears: let him, who seeketh to enter thus, go away pierced: for “evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“And through this means, they, who corrupt good manners by evil communications, with empty and vain craft, say to a Christian man exercising continence, and refusing marriage, What then, are you better than Abraham?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33
Read the whole comment“Seest thou, “that evil communications corrupt good manners?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
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John Chrysostom
“Of a truth “evil communications corrupt good manners” ( 1 Cor. xv. 33 ), at all times indeed, but particularly in calamities: then they who give evil advice have strength.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For “evil communications corrupt good manners.” ( 1 Cor. xv. 33.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For, It is saith, “evil communications corrupt good manners.” ( 1 Cor. xv. 33.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Therefore Paul said, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
Read the whole comment“In imitation of this, Paul also reasons with the Greeks from an heathen altar, and brings forward testimonies from the poets.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 23, 28; 1 Cor. xv. 33; Titus i. 12.
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Leo the Great
“…observing, as I have said, such discrimination as to separate the incorrigible from the more docile spirits: for “evil conversations corrupt good manners,” and “the wise man will be sharper than the pestilent person who is chastised;” in order that in whatever way the society of the wicked is broken up, some…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Be ye righteously sober and sin not, for some have no knowledge of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
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Aphrahat
“Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good purposes.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 32, 33.
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John Cassian
“It will be enough to have given this single instance of this sort of men in order to put beginners on their guard, and to show clearly what evils idleness, as Scripture says, can produce in the mind of a monk, and how “evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 33.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 32, 33.
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Tertullian
“Follow companies and conversations worthy of God, mindful of that short verse, sanctified by the apostle’s quotation of it, “Ill interviews good morals do corrupt.”” — editor's note: A verse said to be Menander’s, quoted by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 33; quoted again, but somewhat differently rendered, by Tertullian in b. i. c. iii.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Letters Letter 104.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.96.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.