Epistle of Barnabas 4.2

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: Do not keep company with the wicked.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:348

μὴ δῶμεν τῇ ἑαυτῶν ψυχῇ ἄνεσιν, ὥστε ἔχειν αὐτὴν ἐξουσίαν μετὰ ἁμαρτωλῶν καὶ πονηρῶν συντρέχειν, μήποτε ὁμοιωθῶμεν αὐτοῖς.

Let us not give our soul freedom to run with sinners and wicked people, lest we become like them.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:348 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Barn. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/2/).

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Barn. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/4/2/).