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“Evil communications corrupt good manners” (1 Corinthians 15:33).
This verse, in this same chapter about resurrection, gives us another important warning. When I was growing up, my mother always insisted that we practice good table manners. But once in a while we would find ourselves eating with other boys who had not been so carefully taught. Then we would often begin to adopt their careless and sloppy way of eating, and my mother would have to straighten us out. I have always been thankful that she taught us good manners!
In the same way, if we listen to people out in the world, their evil communications can make us forget the importance of following the Lord. Then we may begin to think that we too can abandon the narrow way of following Christ, and begin to indulge ourselves in the things of this world, without regard to the consequences.
We should not isolate ourselves from the world, for we should bring the gospel before them, but we should not allow their evil communications to corrupt what we have learned about the pathway of faith.
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