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

You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

Obey my laws. Never crossbreed different kinds of animals. Do not plant two kinds of crops in your field. Never wear clothes made from two kinds of material.

Jehovah your God will deliver them to you. You must crush them! Completely destroy them. You should make no covenant with them. Do not show them mercy.

Do not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed that you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

After these things were done, the captains came to me and said: The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands. They have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

They gave their word that they would put away their wives; and for their sin, they gave an offering of a male sheep of the flock.

On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses while the people listened. They heard that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God at any time.

Instead, they intermarried with other nations. They learned to do what other nations did.

Do not befriend an angry man. Do not associate with a man who throws fits.

The people of Judah have done wrong. They deal treacherously and committed an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

I wrote in a letter to you not to keep company with fornicators.

The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For

They brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.

Elijah came near to all the people and said: How long will you balance (bounce back and forth) between two opinions? If Jehovah is God, then give worship to him. If Baal is, give worship to him. The people did not answer him.

A prophet, Jehu son of Hanani, went to meet the king. He said to him: Do you think it is right to help those who are wicked and to take the side of those who hate Jehovah? What you have done has brought Jehovah's anger upon you.

The holy ones on earth are the noble ones who fill me with joy.

I do not sit with deceitful men, and I will not be found among hypocrites.

If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

I am a companion of all those who reverence you and keep your precepts.

Do I not hate those who hate You, O Jehovah? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

An unjust man is an abomination (disgusting) to the righteous. He who is upright in the way is an abomination (detestable) to the wicked.

The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

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

Being released, they went to their own and reported all that the chief priests and elders said to them.

You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi 1:12)

Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.

And what

Riches and honor are with me. Yes, durable riches and righteousness.

The night is far along and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light

That way you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. You are seen as lights in the world.

You do not live in the dark. That day should not overtake you by surprise as a thief would.

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

General references

Do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gold to be worshiped in addition to me.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.

Do not befriend an angry man. Do not associate with a man who throws fits.

Will two walk together, except they cooperate (collaborate) (have an agreement)?