Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Holman Bible
Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness?
International Standard Version
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
A Conservative Version
Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?
American Standard Version
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Amplified
Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
An Understandable Version
Do not team up with unbelievers [i.e., in close relationships, such as marriage, etc.]. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or, what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Anderson New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness?
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
Common New Testament
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?
Darby Translation
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
Godbey New Testament
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?
Goodspeed New Testament
Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?
John Wesley New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Julia Smith Translation
Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?
King James 2000
Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation [is there between] righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship [does] light [have] with darkness?
Modern King James verseion
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?
Moffatt New Testament
[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?
Montgomery New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness?
NET Bible
Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
New Heart English Bible
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Noyes New Testament
Be not strangely yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Or what communion hath light with darkness?
Sawyer New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?
The Emphasized Bible
Be not getting diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be not unequally yoked with infidels; for what participation hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what fellowship [is there] between light and darkness?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not enter into inconsistent relations with those who reject the Faith. For what partnership can there be between righteousness and lawlessness? or what has light to do with darkness?
Webster
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Weymouth New Testament
Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness?
Williams New Testament
Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?
World English Bible
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Worrell New Testament
Become not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship have righteousness and lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Worsley New Testament
Be not unsuitably connected with infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Forbidden
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Unbecoming in those called saints
Children » Who are the children of God
Communion » What cannot have communion together
Communion of saints » Opposed to communion with the wicked
Communion with God » Holiness essential to
Family » Who are members of the lord’s family
Marriage » Wives among the israelites must be israelites
Righteousness » Has no fellowship with unrighteousness
Separation » Separating yourself from unclean things
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Service » What cannot be served together
Interlinear
Ginomai
me
Tis
τίς
Tis
Usage: 344
πρός
Pros
unto, to, with, for, against, among, at, not tr, , vr to
Usage: 412
Anomia
De
Koinonia
Devotionals
Devotionals about 2 Corinthians 6:14
Devotionals containing 2 Corinthians 6:14
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:14
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 6:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Become Unevenly Yoked With Unbelievers
13 and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye! 14 Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? 15 and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?
Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
Psalm 139:21-22
Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
Ephesians 5:6-14
Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11
Thou dost not sow thy vineyard with divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.
1 Kings 18:21
and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, 'Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah is God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.
John 15:18-19
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
1 Corinthians 5:9
I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --
1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;
1 Corinthians 10:21
Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
1 Peter 2:9-10
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
1 Peter 4:2-4
no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
Leviticus 19:19
My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender with diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
1 Samuel 5:2-3
and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.
2 Chronicles 19:2
and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, 'To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee is wrath from before Jehovah,
Ezra 9:1-2
And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, 'The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,
Ezra 9:11-12
that Thou hast commanded by the hands of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land into which ye are going to possess it, is a land of impurity, by the impurity of the people of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it -- from mouth unto mouth -- by their uncleanness;
Ezra 10:19
and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.
Nehemiah 13:1-3
On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God -- unto the age,
Nehemiah 13:23-26
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
Psalm 16:3
For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.
Psalm 26:4-5
I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.
Psalm 26:9-10
Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,
Psalm 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
Psalm 101:3-5
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
Psalm 106:35
And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
Psalm 119:63
A companion I am to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.
Proverbs 8:18-19
Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
Proverbs 22:24
Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
Proverbs 29:27
An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!
Malachi 2:11
Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Malachi 2:15
And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
John 7:7
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
Acts 4:23
And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,
Romans 13:12-14
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
Ephesians 4:17-20
This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Philippians 2:15
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
1 Thessalonians 5:4-8
and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;
1 John 1:5-7
And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
1 John 3:12-14
not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
Exodus 34:16
and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;