2 Corinthians 6:14

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2 Corinthians 6:14

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Summary

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Unequally

For

And what

General references

Amos 3:3

Bible References

Unequally

and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

My statutes shall ye observe. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with another sort; thou shalt not sow thy field with seed of two sorts; and a garment woven of two materials shall not come upon thee.

and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with seed of two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited.

Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;

And they gave their hand to send away their wives; and they offered a ram of the flock, as trespass-offering for their guilt.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

For

And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

Then Elijah drew near to all the people, and said, How long do ye halt between two opinions? if Jehovah be God, follow him; and if Baal, follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate Jehovah? Therefore is wrath upon thee from Jehovah.

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

I am the companion of all that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?

An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked man.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

And having been let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

And what

Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.

The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,

that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world,

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

General references

Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold.

and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;

Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

Shall two walk together except they be agreed?