Daily text, Tuesday, December 6. 2016

[Queen Esther]

            Jehovah’s  People  “Renounce  Unrighteousness”

If anyone keeps clear of the latter ones, he will be an instrument for an honorable use.—2 Tim. 2:21.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2016/12/6

Paul wrote about “a large house” with “utensils . . . for an honorable use but others for a use lacking honor.” (2 Tim. 2:20) He admonished Christians to separate themselves from the utensils that are used for a purpose “lacking honor.” In a house, some utensils may become contaminated by dangerous substances or unsanitary conditions. The householder will keep such implements separate from clean utensils, such as those used for cooking. Likewise, Jehovah’s people today, striving to live clean lives, should avoid intimacy with individuals in the congregation who persistently disregard Jehovah’s principles. (1 Cor. 15:33) If this is true of some inside the congregation, how much more should we “turn away” from having close association with those outside the congregation, many of whom are ‘lovers of money, without love of goodness, and lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God’!—2 Tim. 3:1-5. w14 7/15 2:14-16