Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way.

Infection easy

Manton says: “We easily catch an infectious disease from one another, but no man receiveth health from another’s company.” Too true. Evil communications inevitably corrupt good manners; but good communications do not so necessarily improve evil manners. We more readily learn evil than good, and we are also more forcible in communicating sin than virtue. Both as to the giving out and the receiving, the aptness lies on the wrong side. What a proof of our natural depravity! What a change must grace work in us before we shall be fully like our Lord Jesus, who was incapable of being inoculated by sin, but abundantly able to communicate goodness; for healing virtue proceeded from Him. When shall we become disseminators of holiness by our very presence? (C. H. Spurgeon.)