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

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Bible References

Unequally

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases so long as he is a Christian.

Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

For

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

After being released, the apostles went back to their friends, and told them what the high priests and members of the council had said to them.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

And what

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

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