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]