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2 Corinthians 6:14

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12 It is not our affection, but yours, that is restrained.

13 As a fair exchange, I ask you as my children: Open wide your hearts also.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

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BSB
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
KJV
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
WEB
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
ASV
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
DARBY
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
BLB
Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership [have] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [has] light with darkness?
ÅB
Dra ikke i fremmed åk med vantro! for hva samlag har rettferd med urett, eller hva samfunn har lys med mørke?
OTB
Vær ikke ulikt åket med vantro; for hva har rettferdighet og lovløshet til felles, eller hva deler lys med mørke?
B1930
Dra ikke i fremmed åk med vantro! for hvad samlag har rettferd med urett, eller hvad samfund har lys med mørke?

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Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 15:33

    Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:21

    You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

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  • James 4:4

    You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

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  • Ephesians 5:6–14

    Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

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  • Leviticus 19:19

    You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

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  • 1 Peter 2:9–10

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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  • Psalms 26:4–5

    I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

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  • Deuteronomy 22:9–11

    Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled —both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

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