1 Corinthians 15:33

Tertullian To His Wife Book I

Follow companies and conversations worthy of God, mindful of that short verse, sanctified by the apostle's quotation of it, "Ill interviews good morals do corrupt."[94]

Cyprian Epistle LIV

But for the rest, let our most beloved brethren firmly decline, and avoid the words and conversations of those whose word creeps onwards like a cancer; as the apostle says, "Evil communications corrupt good manners."[65]

Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church

And again, "Evil communications corrupt good manners."[52]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Evil communications corrupt good dispositions."[769]

The First Epistle of Pope Fabian

And the apostle says, "Evil communications corrupt good manners."[13]