1 Corinthians 15:33

15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” 1 

1 Corinthians 15:2

15:2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

Colossians 1:17

1:17 He himself is before all things and all things are held together 2  in him.

Revelation 18:4

18:4 Then 3  I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,

1 sn A quotation from the poet Menander, Thais 218, which Paul uses in a proverbial sense.

2 tn BDAG 973 s.v. συνίστημι B.3 suggests “continue, endure, exist, hold together” here.

3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.