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 you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

"'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.

and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, "The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For

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

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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

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

You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

And what

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

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

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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

General references

You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?