The Mafia in the Bible

One of the worst misconceptions of love. There is certain company not to keep, bearing in mind that Jesus did not hesitate to eat with publicans and sinners; the passage seems perfectly clear.

1 Cor. 5:11. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

A railer is an executioner, more or less, whether in court or out of court. A very loud and angry person. And don't be date-raped or get high on drugs from any of the adulterated food typically served by fornicators and adulterers or date rapists either.

So do not keep company with those who call that man a brother, when you have such knowledge or information about any particular well-respected man's character.

Acts 17:5. But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. are come hither also; Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

To say that they "turned the world upside down" was a vulgar expression said of anything terribly unseemly, such as a homosexual act or a political revolution, or even of a poor man who had suddenly become wealthy without explanation. The Jews slammed Jason for bail money and falsely associated him in intimacy with another man after assaulting his house.