2 Corinthians 6:16
14 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?
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.”
17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.”
- KJV
- And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- WEB
- What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
- ASV
- And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- DARBY
- and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are [the] living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
- BLB
- And what agreement [has] the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them, and I will walk among [them], and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- ÅB
- Og hva enighet er det mellom Guds tempel og avguder? Vi er jo den levende Guds tempel, som Gud har sagt: Jeg vil bo iblant dem og ferdes iblant dem, og jeg vil være deres Gud, og de skal være mitt folk.
- OTB
- Eller hvilken avtale kan finnes mellom Guds tempel og avguder? Vi er den levende Guds tempel; som Gud har erklært:
“Jeg vil bo blant dem og vandre blant dem;
Og jeg vil være deres Gud, og de skal være Mitt folk. - B1930
- Og hvad enighet er det mellem Guds tempel og avguder? Vi er jo den levende Guds tempel, som Gud har sagt: Jeg vil bo iblandt dem og ferdes iblandt dem, og jeg vil være deres Gud, og de skal være mitt folk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
Read in contextExodus 29:45
Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
Read in contextHebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:12
I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
Read in contextEzekiel 37:26–27
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
Read in contextJeremiah 32:38
They will be My people, and I will be their God.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:16–17
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Read in contextEzekiel 11:20
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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