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55* and scorns its admonition, let him be to you as a Gentile and a flagrant sinner, avoid him, and have no hristian fellowship with him. With the same reasoning Saint Paul says:

He forbids associating, eating and drinking with them; that is, he commands us to segregate ourselves from them And he speaks also of loafers, and busybodies who are not busy; do not associate with them, but let them keep quiet and earn their own bread they have to eat. Let no one look after somebody else's bread.

All these things are based on Christ's purity and perfection which the apostles have promulgated among the early Christians who lived simply on the foundation of Christ's words. It must be apparent to all wise men that Christ's perfection is preached to a fallen human generation – fallen because of the pagan rule of the kings of earthly realms and (their) civil administrators. Yet, as was said before, malefactors cannot be compelled to punishment for their sins, nor is vengeance I-Corinthians 5: 9–11.

2-Thessalonians 3:11–12.